Installation error ‘multiprocess’ is not exported by 'namespace:future'

[luddeluddis]

Thanks for the work with this package! Unfortunately I've encountered an error during installation when following the recommended procedure on a Linux environment using the latest version of R (4.3.1). The specific error I receive is:
"Error: object ‘multiprocess’ is not exported by 'namespace:future'".

Upon searching for this error, I came across this StackOverflow post which mentions that the "multiprocess" function from the "future" package was deprecated for some time, and as of March 2023, it was officially removed. According to this GitHub page you can achieve the same thing by calling "multicore" or "multisession". Is there a way to modify the causeSims package to no longer depend on the "multiprocess" function?

I circumvent the error by first installing an earlier version of the future package:

remotes::install_version('future', '1.28.0',repos = 'http://cran.us.r-project.org')

and then installing the causeSims package adding the upgrade variable "never" to the installation process:

devtools::install_github('jean997/causeSims', upgrade = 'never')

[jean997]

Thanks for pointing this out! I wanted to let you know that I actually have a new package that is an extension of the causeSims package that you might find useful. You can find it here

https://jean997.github.io/simGWAS/

Just as a heads up - we are planning to change the package name soon as simGWAS is already taken on CRAN. If you would like to know when this happens, feel free to send me an email and I will add you to the announcement. My email is jvmorr at umich dot edu.

[GAUSS66-well]

Dr jean997,Thanks for the work with this package! Is there any other way to install the package of causeSims under version of R 4.3.1? This package is so important for me, because the loading of another R package requires the use of this package.However an error occurred when I installed on a Window environment.

The code:

install.packages("C:/Users/91267/Downloads/jean997-causeSims-1997e0a.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/91267/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) :
skipping pax global extended headers

• installing source package 'causeSims' ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error: object 'multiprocess' is not exported by 'namespace:future'
  Execution halted
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'causeSims'
• removing 'C:/Users/91267/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3/causeSims'
• restoring previous 'C:/Users/91267/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3/causeSims'
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/91267/Downloads/jean997-causeSims-1997e0a.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

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easyMRhelp::install_package_MR('causeSims')
Using github PAT from envvar GITHUB_TOKEN
Downloading GitHub repo jean997/causeSims@HEAD
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, :
download from 'https://api.github.com/repos/jean997/causeSims/tarball/HEAD' failed
Using github PAT from envvar GITHUB_TOKEN
Downloading GitHub repo jean997/causeSims@HEAD
Downloading package from url: http://cnsgenomics.com/software/gsmr/static/gsmr_1.0.9.tar.gz
── R CMD build ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
✔ checking for file 'C:\Users\91267\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpoBF95y\remotese7c5f821c26\gsmr/DESCRIPTION'
─ preparing 'gsmr':
✔ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
✔ checking vignette meta-information
─ checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
─ checking for empty or unneeded directories
─ looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
─ building 'gsmr_1.0.9.tar.gz'

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/91267/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

• installing source package 'gsmr' ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** data
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  ** help
  *** installing help indices
  ** building package indices
  ** installing vignettes
  ** 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 (gsmr)
  Downloading package from url: http://cnsgenomics.com/software/gsmr/static/gsmr_1.0.9.tar.gz
  Skipping gsmr, it is already being installed
  ── R CMD build ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  ✔ checking for file 'C:\Users\91267\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpoBF95y\remotese7c2f177daa\jean997-causeSims-1997e0a/DESCRIPTION' ...
  ─ preparing 'causeSims':
  ✔ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
  ─ checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
  ─ checking for empty or unneeded directories
  Omitted 'LazyData' from DESCRIPTION
  NB: this package now depends on R (>= 3.5.0)
  WARNING: Added dependency on R >= 3.5.0 because serialized objects in
  serialize/load version 3 cannot be read in older versions of R.
  File(s) containing such objects:
  'causeSims/results/res_fp.RDS' 'causeSims/results/res_mix1.RDS'
  'causeSims/results/res_pwr.RDS' 'causeSims/results/res_rev.RDS'
  ─ building 'causeSims_0.1.0.tar.gz'

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/91267/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

• installing source package 'causeSims' ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error: object 'multiprocess' is not exported by 'namespace:future'
  Execution halted
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'causeSims'
• removing 'C:/Users/91267/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3/causeSims'
• restoring previous 'C:/Users/91267/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3/causeSims'
  Warning message:
  In i.p(...) :
  installation of package ‘C:/Users/91267/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpoBF95y/filee7c4bf83b88/causeSims_0.1.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

[jean997]

Can I ask what the dependent package is? The best solution is to switch over to the simGWAS package which has better functionality and is actively supported. Perhaps I can recommend this to the maintainer of the package you require.