Installation error: Endless loop of "Enter y or n, or enter q to quit"

[tyleransom]

I am trying to install fs on Linux x86_64 using the basic install.packages('fs') syntax from the cloud.r-project.org mirror.

Installation appears to go fine until I'm met with an endless loop of

Enter y or n, or enter q to quit:

Does anyone know what might be the issue? I've never encountered this before when installing any other package. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I can't tell after which compilation line the error begins, because I'm not quick enough to hit ^C and it quickly overflows my terminal.

Below is my sessionInfo() output:

>  sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.6 (Maipo)

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib64/libblas.so.3.4.2
LAPACK: /usr/lib64/liblapack.so.3.4.2

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.2 tools_3.4.2

as well as the output of R CMD config --all:

CC = gcc -std=gnu99
CFLAGS = -g -O2
CPICFLAGS = -fpic
CPP = gcc -std=gnu99 -E
CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/local/include
CXX = g++
CXXCPP = g++ -E
CXXFLAGS = -g -O2
CXXPICFLAGS = -fpic
CXX11 = g++
CXX11STD = -std=gnu++11
CXX11FLAGS = -g -O2
CXX11PICFLAGS = -fpic
CXX14 =
CXX14STD =
CXX14FLAGS =
CXX14PICFLAGS =
CXX98 = g++
CXX98STD =
CXX98FLAGS = -g -O2
CXX98PICFLAGS = -fpic
CXX17 =
CXX17STD =
CXX17FLAGS =
CXX17PICFLAGS =
CXX1X = g++
CXX1XSTD = -std=gnu++11
CXX1XFLAGS = -g -O2
CXX1XPICFLAGS = -fpic
DYLIB_EXT = .so
DYLIB_LD = gcc -std=gnu99
DYLIB_LDFLAGS = -shared -fopenmp
F77 = gfortran
FFLAGS = -g -O2
FPICFLAGS = -fpic
FLIBS = -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath
SAFE_FFLAGS = -g -O2 -ffloat-store
FC = gfortran
FCFLAGS = -g -O2
FCPICFLAGS = -fpic
OBJC =
OBJCFLAGS =
JAVA = /opt/apps/rhel7/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/java
JAVAC = /opt/apps/rhel7/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/javac
JAVAH = /opt/apps/rhel7/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/javah
JAR = /opt/apps/rhel7/jdk1.8.0_60/bin/jar
JAVA_HOME = /hpchome/apps/rhel7/jdk1.8.0_60/jre
JAVA_LIBS = -L/hpchome/apps/rhel7/jdk1.8.0_60/jre/lib/amd64/server -ljvm
JAVA_CPPFLAGS = -I/hpchome/apps/rhel7/jdk1.8.0_60/jre/../include -I/hpchome/apps/rhel7/jdk1.8.0_60/jre/../include/linux
LDFLAGS = -L/usr/local/lib64
SHLIB_CFLAGS =
SHLIB_CXXLD = g++
SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS = -shared
SHLIB_CXX98LD = g++
SHLIB_CXX98LDFLAGS = -shared
SHLIB_CXX11LD = g++ -std=gnu++11
SHLIB_CXX11LDFLAGS = -shared
SHLIB_CXX14LD =
SHLIB_CXX14LDFLAGS = -shared
SHLIB_CXX17LD =
SHLIB_CXX17LDFLAGS = -shared
SHLIB_EXT = .so
SHLIB_FFLAGS =
SHLIB_LD = gcc -std=gnu99
SHLIB_LDFLAGS = -shared
SHLIB_FCLD = gfortran
SHLIB_FCLDFLAGS = -shared
SHLIB_CXX1XLD = g++ -std=gnu++11
SHLIB_CXX1XLDFLAGS = -shared
TCLTK_CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/include -I/usr/include
TCLTK_LIBS = -L/usr/lib64 -ltcl8.5 -L/usr/lib64 -ltk8.5 -lX11
BLAS_LIBS = -lblas
LAPACK_LIBS = -llapack
MAKE = make
LIBnn = lib64
LOCAL_SOFT =
COMPILED_BY =

[jimhester]

I don't believe this has anything to do with fs in particular, we certainly are not prompting the user for anything during installation.

You could use screen or tmux to provide a larger navigable terminal buffer which maybe would provide more context, there unfortunately is not enough here for us to do anything actionable.

[rjkimble]

I ran into this exact problem. The problem turned out to be a file named "install" in our Stata 16 directory, which unfortunately was the first directory in our path. Once I removed the directory from the path, the installation proceeded without a problem.

[davidjiyangcai]

thank you so much!