https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51605 Bug ID: 51605 Summary: R returns Cygwin warning and installation error during package installation Product: Wine Version: 6.15 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: blocker Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org Reporter: virtualreal(a)gmail.com Distribution: --- Hello, (specific details like versions & sources can be found below) Using R with the Devtools library I try to install a package called Catboost, with the following R script: -- install.packages("devtools", dependencies = TRUE) library(devtools) devtools::install_url('https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/download/v0.26.1/catboost-R-Wi...') -- Devtools was already installed successfully, but the last command (devtools::install_url...) returns: -- Downloading package from url: https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/download/v0.26.1/catboost-R-Wi... Cygwin WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. This typically occurs if you're using an older Cygwin version on a newer Windows. Please update to the latest available Cygwin version from https://cygwin.com/. If the problem persists, please see https://cygwin.com/problems.html Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from URL: Does not appear to be an R package (no DESCRIPTION) -- Under Windows 8 the same installation script runs fine: -- Downloading package from url: https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/download/v0.26.1/catboost-R-Wi... checking for file 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp6tcsba\remotesd9c63bc54db\catboost/DESCRIPTION' ... √ checking for file 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp6tcsba\remotesd9c63bc54db\catboost/DESCRIPTION' (1.1s) - preparing 'catboost': (2s) checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... √ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information - checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts (430ms) - checking for empty or unneeded directories - building 'catboost_0.26.1.tar.gz' * installing *source* package 'catboost' ... ** using staged installation ** R ** inst ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices converting help for package 'catboost' finding HTML links ... done catboost.caret html catboost.cv html catboost.drop_unused_features html catboost.eval_metrics html catboost.get_feature_importance html catboost.get_model_params html catboost.get_object_importance html catboost.get_plain_params html catboost.load_model html catboost.load_pool html catboost.predict html catboost.restore_handle html catboost.save_model html catboost.save_pool html catboost.shrink html catboost.staged_predict html catboost.sum_models html catboost.train html catboost.virtual_ensembles_predict html dim.catboost.Pool html dimnames.catboost.Pool html head.catboost.Pool html print.catboost.Model html print.catboost.Pool html summary.catboost.Model html tail.catboost.Pool html ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path * DONE (catboost) Making 'packages.html' ... done -- For R, check https://mirror.lyrahosting.com/CRAN/ I'm forced to use the Windows version due to a dependency from another Windows program. I use the latest version of Cygwin: 2.909, 64-bit. I use the 64-bit version of Bunsenlabs, which is based on Debian 10. In case you need any more info, please let me know. Thanks! -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.