How to install stringi library from archive and install the local icu52l.zip
We're bumbling through making some R code work in a production environment and as part of that we're installing some R packages as follows:
# Default directories and mirrors
WORKING_DIR <- "/srv/foo/bar/baz"
LIB_DIR <- paste( WORKING_DIR, "libs", sep="/" )
setwd(WORKING_DIR)
stringi.loc <- paste( WORKING_DIR, "stringi_0.4-1.tar.gz", sep="/" )
This might not be the most elegant way of installing R packages but it seems to work okay for us (any other tips on R package management would be welcome but a bit late at this stage :).
However, the stringi package seems to depend on the icu52l package, which it installs the over the network:
checking for R... /usr/lib64/R/bin/R
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for cat... /bin/cat
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking with pkg-config for ICU4C installed... no
*** The pkg-config script did not detect ICU4C-devel libraries installed
*** We will build ICU4C from sources
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking elf.h usability... yes
checking elf.h presence... yes
checking for elf.h... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
config.status: creating src/icu52_found.txt
g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -Iicu52 -Iicu52/unicode -Iicu52/common -Iicu52/i18n -DU_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_COMMON_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_I18N_IMPLEMENTATION -DUCONFIG_USE_LOCAL -DNDEBUG -DU_HAVE_ELF_H -fpic -g -c stri_brkiter.cpp -o stri_brkiter.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -Iicu52 -Iicu52/unicode -Iicu52/common -Iicu52/i18n -DU_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_COMMON_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_I18N_IMPLEMENTATION -DUCONFIG_USE_LOCAL -DNDEBUG -DU_HAVE_ELF_H -fpic -g -c icu52/i18n/utmscale.c -o icu52/i18n/utmscale.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -Iicu52 -Iicu52/unicode -Iicu52/common -Iicu52/i18n -DU_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_COMMON_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_I18N_IMPLEMENTATION -DUCONFIG_USE_LOCAL -DNDEBUG -DU_HAVE_ELF_H -fpic -g -c icu52/stubdata/stubdata.c -o icu52/stubdata/stubdata.o
g++ -shared -o stringi.so stri_brkiter.o stri_collator.o stri_common.o stri_compare.o stri_container_base.o stri_container_bytesearch.o stri_container_listint.o stri_container_listraw.o stri_container_listutf8.o stri_container_regex.o stri_container_usearch.o stri_container_utf16.o stri_container_utf8.o stri_container_utf8_indexable.o stri_encoding_conversion.o stri_encoding_detection.o stri_encoding_management.o stri_escape.o stri_exception.o stri_ICU_settings.o stri_join.o stri_length.o stri_pad.o stri_prepare_arg.o stri_random.o stri_reverse.o stri_search_class_count.o stri_search_class_detect.o stri_search_class_extract.o stri_search_class_locate.o stri_search_class_replace.o stri_search_class_split.o stri_search_class_startsendswith.o stri_search_class_subset.o stri_search_class_trim.o stri_search_common.o stri_search_coll_count.o stri_search_coll_detect.o stri_search_coll_extract.o stri_search_coll_locate.o stri_search_coll_replace.o stri_search_coll_split.o stri_search_coll_startsendswith.o stri_search_coll_subset.o stri_search_boundaries_count.o stri_search_boundaries_locate.o stri_search_boundaries_split.o stri_search_fixed_count.o stri_search_fixed_detect.o stri_search_fixed_extract.o stri_search_fixed_locate.o stri_search_fixed_replace.o stri_search_fixed_split.o stri_search_fixed_subset.o stri_search_fixed_startsendswith.o stri_search_in.o stri_search_other_replace.o stri_search_other_split.o stri_search_regex_count.o stri_search_regex_detect.o stri_search_regex_extract.o stri_search_regex_locate.o stri_search_regex_match.o stri_search_regex_replace.o stri_search_regex_split.o stri_search_regex_subset.o stri_stats.o stri_stringi.o stri_sub.o stri_test.o stri_trans_casemap.o stri_trans_normalization.o stri_trans_transliterate.o stri_ucnv.o stri_uloc.o stri_utils.o stri_wrap.o icu52/common/appendable.o icu52/common/bmpset.o icu52/common/brkeng.o icu52/common/brkiter.o icu52/common/bytestream.o icu52/common/bytestrie.o icu52/common/bytestriebuilder.o icu52/common/bytestrieiterator.o icu52/common/caniter.o icu52/common/chariter.o icu52/common/charstr.o icu52/common/dictbe.o icu52/common/dictionarydata.o icu52/common/dtintrv.o icu52/common/errorcode.o icu52/common/filterednormalizer2.o icu52/common/listformatter.o icu52/common/locavailable.o icu52/common/locbased.o icu52/common/locdispnames.o icu52/common/locid.o icu52/common/loclikely.o icu52/common/locresdata.o icu52/common/locutil.o icu52/common/messagepattern.o icu52/common/normalizer2.o icu52/common/normalizer2impl.o icu52/common/normlzr.o icu52/common/parsepos.o icu52/common/patternprops.o icu52/common/propname.o icu52/common/punycode.o icu52/common/putil.o icu52/common/rbbi.o icu52/common/rbbidata.o icu52/common/rbbinode.o icu52/common/rbbirb.o icu52/common/rbbiscan.o icu52/common/rbbisetb.o icu52/common/rbbistbl.o icu52/common/rbbitblb.o icu52/common/resbund_cnv.o icu52/common/resbund.o icu52/common/ruleiter.o icu52/common/schriter.o icu52/common/serv.o icu52/common/servlk.o icu52/common/servlkf.o icu52/common/servls.o icu52/common/servnotf.o icu52/common/servrbf.o icu52/common/servslkf.o icu52/common/stringpiece.o icu52/common/stringtriebuilder.o icu52/common/ubrk.o icu52/common/ucase.o icu52/common/ucasemap_titlecase_brkiter.o icu52/common/ucasemap.o icu52/common/ucharstrie.o icu52/common/ucharstriebuilder.o icu52/common/ucharstrieiterator.o icu52/common/uchriter.o icu52/common/ucnv_bld.o icu52/common/ucnv_ext.o icu52/common/ucnv_io.o icu52/common/ucnv2022.o icu52/common/ucnvbocu.o icu52/common/ucnvsel.o icu52/common/ucol_swp.o icu52/common/udata.o icu52/common/uhash_us.o icu52/common/uidna.o icu52/common/uinit.o icu52/common/uiter.o icu52/common/uloc.o icu52/common/umutex.o icu52/common/unames.o icu52/common/unifilt.o icu52/common/unifunct.o icu52/common/uniset_closure.o icu52/common/uniset_props.o icu52/common/uniset.o icu52/common/unisetspan.o icu52/common/unistr_case_locale.o icu52/common/unistr_case.o icu52/common/unistr_cnv.o icu52/common/unistr_props.o icu52/common/unistr_titlecase_brkiter.o icu52/common/unistr.o icu52/common/unorm.o icu52/common/unormcmp.o icu52/common/uobject.o icu52/common/uprops.o icu52/common/uresbund.o icu52/common/uscript_props.o icu52/common/uset_props.o icu52/common/uset.o icu52/common/usetiter.o icu52/common/ushape.o icu52/common/usprep.o icu52/common/ustack.o icu52/common/ustr_titlecase_brkiter.o icu52/common/ustr_wcs.o icu52/common/ustrcase_locale.o icu52/common/ustrcase.o icu52/common/ustrenum.o icu52/common/ustring.o icu52/common/ustrtrns.o icu52/common/utext.o icu52/common/util_props.o icu52/common/util.o icu52/common/utrie.o icu52/common/utrie2_builder.o icu52/common/utrie2.o icu52/common/uts46.o icu52/common/uvector.o icu52/common/uvectr32.o icu52/common/uvectr64.o icu52/common/cmemory.o icu52/common/cstring.o icu52/common/cwchar.o icu52/common/icudataver.o icu52/common/icuplug.o icu52/common/locmap.o icu52/common/propsvec.o icu52/common/uarrsort.o icu52/common/ubidi_props.o icu52/common/ubidi.o icu52/common/ubidiln.o icu52/common/ubidiwrt.o icu52/common/ucat.o icu52/common/uchar.o icu52/common/ucln_cmn.o icu52/common/ucmndata.o icu52/common/ucnv_cb.o icu52/common/ucnv_cnv.o icu52/common/ucnv_ct.o icu52/common/ucnv_err.o icu52/common/ucnv_lmb.o icu52/common/ucnv_set.o icu52/common/ucnv_u16.o icu52/common/ucnv_u32.o icu52/common/ucnv_u7.o icu52/common/ucnv_u8.o icu52/common/ucnv.o icu52/common/ucnvdisp.o icu52/common/ucnvhz.o icu52/common/ucnvisci.o icu52/common/ucnvlat1.o icu52/common/ucnvmbcs.o icu52/common/ucnvscsu.o icu52/common/udatamem.o icu52/common/udataswp.o icu52/common/uenum.o icu52/common/uhash.o icu52/common/uinvchar.o icu52/common/ulist.o icu52/common/uloc_tag.o icu52/common/umapfile.o icu52/common/umath.o icu52/common/unorm_it.o icu52/common/ures_cnv.o icu52/common/uresdata.o icu52/common/usc_impl.o icu52/common/uscript.o icu52/common/ustr_cnv.o icu52/common/ustrfmt.o icu52/common/utf_impl.o icu52/common/utrace.o icu52/common/utypes.o icu52/common/wintz.o icu52/i18n/alphaindex.o icu52/i18n/anytrans.o icu52/i18n/astro.o icu52/i18n/basictz.o icu52/i18n/bocsu.o icu52/i18n/brktrans.o icu52/i18n/buddhcal.o icu52/i18n/calendar.o icu52/i18n/casetrn.o icu52/i18n/cecal.o icu52/i18n/chnsecal.o icu52/i18n/choicfmt.o icu52/i18n/coleitr.o icu52/i18n/coll.o icu52/i18n/compactdecimalformat.o icu52/i18n/coptccal.o icu52/i18n/cpdtrans.o icu52/i18n/csdetect.o icu52/i18n/csmatch.o icu52/i18n/csr2022.o icu52/i18n/csrecog.o icu52/i18n/csrmbcs.o icu52/i18n/csrsbcs.o icu52/i18n/csrucode.o icu52/i18n/csrutf8.o icu52/i18n/curramt.o icu52/i18n/currfmt.o icu52/i18n/currpinf.o icu52/i18n/currunit.o icu52/i18n/dangical.o icu52/i18n/datefmt.o icu52/i18n/dcfmtsym.o icu52/i18n/decfmtst.o icu52/i18n/decimfmt.o icu52/i18n/digitlst.o icu52/i18n/dtfmtsym.o icu52/i18n/dtitvfmt.o icu52/i18n/dtitvinf.o icu52/i18n/dtptngen.o icu52/i18n/dtrule.o icu52/i18n/esctrn.o icu52/i18n/ethpccal.o icu52/i18n/fmtable_cnv.o icu52/i18n/fmtable.o icu52/i18n/format.o icu52/i18n/fphdlimp.o icu52/i18n/fpositer.o icu52/i18n/funcrepl.o icu52/i18n/gender.o icu52/i18n/gregocal.o icu52/i18n/gregoimp.o icu52/i18n/hebrwcal.o icu52/i18n/identifier_info.o icu52/i18n/indiancal.o icu52/i18n/inputext.o icu52/i18n/islamcal.o icu52/i18n/japancal.o icu52/i18n/locdspnm.o icu52/i18n/measfmt.o icu52/i18n/measure.o icu52/i18n/msgfmt.o icu52/i18n/name2uni.o icu52/i18n/nfrs.o icu52/i18n/nfrule.o icu52/i18n/nfsubs.o icu52/i18n/nortrans.o icu52/i18n/nultrans.o icu52/i18n/numfmt.o icu52/i18n/numsys.o icu52/i18n/olsontz.o icu52/i18n/persncal.o icu52/i18n/plurfmt.o icu52/i18n/plurrule.o icu52/i18n/quant.o icu52/i18n/rbnf.o icu52/i18n/rbt_data.o icu52/i18n/rbt_pars.o icu52/i18n/rbt_rule.o icu52/i18n/rbt_set.o icu52/i18n/rbt.o icu52/i18n/rbtz.o icu52/i18n/regexcmp.o icu52/i18n/regeximp.o icu52/i18n/regexst.o icu52/i18n/regextxt.o icu52/i18n/region.o icu52/i18n/reldtfmt.o icu52/i18n/rematch.o icu52/i18n/remtrans.o icu52/i18n/repattrn.o icu52/i18n/scriptset.o icu52/i18n/search.o icu52/i18n/selfmt.o icu52/i18n/simpletz.o icu52/i18n/smpdtfmt.o icu52/i18n/smpdtfst.o icu52/i18n/sortkey.o icu52/i18n/strmatch.o icu52/i18n/strrepl.o icu52/i18n/stsearch.o icu52/i18n/taiwncal.o icu52/i18n/tblcoll.o icu52/i18n/timezone.o icu52/i18n/titletrn.o icu52/i18n/tmunit.o icu52/i18n/tmutamt.o icu52/i18n/tmutfmt.o icu52/i18n/tolowtrn.o icu52/i18n/toupptrn.o icu52/i18n/translit.o icu52/i18n/transreg.o icu52/i18n/tridpars.o icu52/i18n/tzfmt.o icu52/i18n/tzgnames.o icu52/i18n/tznames_impl.o icu52/i18n/tznames.o icu52/i18n/tzrule.o icu52/i18n/tztrans.o icu52/i18n/ucal.o icu52/i18n/ucol_bld.o icu52/i18n/ucol_cnt.o icu52/i18n/ucol_elm.o icu52/i18n/ucol_res.o icu52/i18n/ucol_sit.o icu52/i18n/ucol_tok.o icu52/i18n/ucol_wgt.o icu52/i18n/ucol.o icu52/i18n/ucoleitr.o icu52/i18n/ucsdet.o icu52/i18n/ucurr.o icu52/i18n/udat.o icu52/i18n/udateintervalformat.o icu52/i18n/udatpg.o icu52/i18n/umsg.o icu52/i18n/unesctrn.o icu52/i18n/uni2name.o icu52/i18n/unum.o icu52/i18n/unumsys.o icu52/i18n/upluralrules.o icu52/i18n/uregex.o icu52/i18n/uregexc.o icu52/i18n/uregion.o icu52/i18n/usearch.o icu52/i18n/uspoof_build.o icu52/i18n/uspoof_conf.o icu52/i18n/uspoof_impl.o icu52/i18n/uspoof_wsconf.o icu52/i18n/uspoof.o icu52/i18n/utrans.o icu52/i18n/vtzone.o icu52/i18n/vzone.o icu52/i18n/windtfmt.o icu52/i18n/winnmfmt.o icu52/i18n/wintzimpl.o icu52/i18n/zonemeta.o icu52/i18n/zrule.o icu52/i18n/ztrans.o icu52/i18n/decContext.o icu52/i18n/decNumber.o icu52/i18n/ucln_in.o icu52/i18n/ulocdata.o icu52/i18n/utmscale.o icu52/stubdata/stubdata.o -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR'
DBG: Stderr is '* installing *source* package ‘stringi’ ...
** package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
icu52/i18n/ucol_sit.cpp: In function ‘int32_t ucol_getUnsafeSet_52(const UCollator*, USet*, UErrorCode*)’:
icu52/i18n/ucol_sit.cpp:933: warning: ‘int32_t ucol_getContractions_52(const UCollator*, USet*, UErrorCode*)’ is deprecated (declared at icu52/i18n/ucol_sit.cpp:849)
icu52/i18n/ucol_sit.cpp:933: warning: ‘int32_t ucol_getContractions_52(const UCollator*, USet*, UErrorCode*)’ is deprecated (declared at icu52/i18n/ucol_sit.cpp:849)
installing via 'install.libs.R' to /srv/adzuna/value-my-cv/career_explorer/libs/stringi
downloading ICU data library (icudt)
the files will be extracted to: /srv/adzuna/value-my-cv/career_explorer/libs/stringi/libs
no icudt in a local repo
trying URL 'http://static.rexamine.com/packages/icudt52l.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 10154575 bytes (9.7 Mb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 9.7 Mb
icudt fetch OK
decompressing downloaded archive
icudt has been installed successfully
restart R to apply changes
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*
How can we tell it to look for the local copy? The output handily includes the remote location (http://static.rexamine.com/packages/icudt52l.zip) so we can just put it somewhere ourselves but are unsure where.
Maybe we're going about this completely the wrong way but any help or pointers would be welcome.
We're on ubuntu machines and have also tried install libicu42 and libicu-dev but neither of those seemed to help.
Answer
This will be fixed in the upcoming 0.5-1 version of stringi, see this feature request.
An appropriate environmental variable (ICUDT_DIR) is now used by the ./configure script to indicate the directory from which a local copy of icudt should be fetched. It can be provided for example via a call to:
install.packages("stringi_0.5-1.zip", # assuming that we install from a downloaded archive
configure.vars="ICUDT_DIR=<dir_to_copy_icudt_from>")