Problem creating an rstan package in R 4.1.1?

General
1

I upgraded to the latest version of R, R 4.1.1, and I am having trouble with my stan packages. I will start with a completely new package

library("rstantools")
rstan_create_package(path = 'testP')

and then within the resulting package I just do the following:

> devtools::load_all()
ℹ Loading testP
Re-compiling testP
─  installing *source* package ‘testP’ ...
   ** using staged installation
─  DONE (testP) (1.7s)
> devtools::document()
ℹ Updating testP documentation
ℹ Loading testP
Re-compiling testP
─  installing *source* package ‘testP’ ...
   ** using staged installation
─  DONE (testP) (1.8s)
Writing NAMESPACE
Writing testP-package.Rd
> devtools::load_all()
ℹ Loading testP
Re-compiling testP
─  installing *source* package ‘testP’ ...
   ** using staged installation
─  DONE (testP) (1.8s)
Error in getDLLRegisteredRoutines.DLLInfo(dll, addNames = FALSE) : 
  must specify DLL via a “DLLInfo” object. See getLoadedDLLs()
>

I am getting: Error in getDLLRegisteredRoutines.DLLInfo(dll, addNames = FALSE) : **
** must specify DLL via a “DLLInfo” object. See getLoadedDLLs()

I am using MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 on a MacBook Pro. And I tried the same thing on a Linux machine and got the same error.

I have no idea what is going on. Any help appreciated.

I am including the session information for the Mac just in case:

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.7

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.7           lattice_0.20-44      prettyunits_1.1.1    ps_1.6.0             digest_0.6.27       
 [6] assertthat_0.2.1     rprojroot_2.0.2      utf8_1.2.2           V8_3.4.2             R6_2.5.1            
[11] stats4_4.1.1         ggplot2_3.3.5        pillar_1.6.2         rlang_0.4.11         curl_4.3.2          
[16] rstudioapi_0.13      callr_3.7.0          Matrix_1.3-4         desc_1.3.0           devtools_2.4.2      
[21] stringr_1.4.0        RcppEigen_0.3.3.9.1  loo_2.4.1            munsell_0.5.0        xfun_0.25           
[26] compiler_4.1.1       rstan_2.21.2         pkgconfig_2.0.3      pkgbuild_1.2.0       rstantools_2.1.1    
[31] tidyselect_1.1.1     tibble_3.1.4         gridExtra_2.3        roxygen2_7.1.1       codetools_0.2-18    
[36] matrixStats_0.60.1   fansi_0.5.0          crayon_1.4.1         dplyr_1.0.7          withr_2.4.2         
[41] commonmark_1.7       BH_1.75.0-0          grid_4.1.1           jsonlite_1.7.2       gtable_0.3.0        
[46] lifecycle_1.0.0      DBI_1.1.1            magrittr_2.0.1       StanHeaders_2.21.0-7 scales_1.1.1        
[51] RcppParallel_5.1.4   stringi_1.7.4        cli_3.0.1            cachem_1.0.6         fs_1.5.0            
[56] remotes_2.4.0        testthat_3.0.4       xml2_1.3.2           ellipsis_0.3.2       generics_0.1.0      
[61] vctrs_0.3.8          tools_4.1.1          glue_1.4.2           purrr_0.3.4          testP_0.0.0.9000    
[66] processx_3.5.2       pkgload_1.2.1        parallel_4.1.1       fastmap_1.1.0        inline_0.3.19       
[71] colorspace_2.0-2     sessioninfo_1.1.1    memoise_2.0.0        knitr_1.33           usethis_2.0.1       
>

Any help appreciated. This is happening in both Mac with R 4.1.1 and Linux with R 4.1.0

2

I just got the same error using Linux and R 4.1.0:

rstan_create_package(path = 'testPackage')

and then:

> library(devtools)                                                                                          
Loading required package: usethis                                                                            
> devtools::document()                                                                                       
ℹ Updating testPackage documentation                                                                         
ℹ Loading testPackage                                                                                        
Re-compiling testPackage                                                                                     
─  installing *source* package ‘testPackage’ ...                                                             
   ** using staged installation                                                                              
─  DONE (testPackage) (2.4s)                                                                                 
Writing NAMESPACE                                                                                            
Writing testPackage-package.Rd                                                                               
> devtools::load_all()                                                                                       
ℹ Loading testPackage                                                                                        
Re-compiling testPackage                                                                                     
─  installing *source* package ‘testPackage’ ...                                                             
   ** using staged installation                                                                              
─  DONE (testPackage) (2.4s)                                                                                 
Error in getDLLRegisteredRoutines.DLLInfo(dll, addNames = FALSE) :                                           
  must specify DLL via a “DLLInfo” object. See getLoadedDLLs()                                               
>

I am still getting the error

Error in getDLLRegisteredRoutines.DLLInfo(dll, addNames = FALSE) : **
** must specify DLL via a “DLLInfo” object. See getLoadedDLLs()

Should I downgrade? I can’t use rstan.

3

Can you try with the development version of rstantools?

if (!require("remotes")) {
  install.packages("remotes")
}
  
remotes::install_github("stan-dev/rstantools")
4

Thank you very much for your reply. It did not do anything:

> devtools::load_all()
ℹ Loading testDeleteme
Re-compiling testDeleteme
─  installing *source* package ‘testDeleteme’ ...
   ** using staged installation
─  DONE (testDeleteme) (2s)
> devtools::document()
ℹ Updating testDeleteme documentation
ℹ Loading testDeleteme
Re-compiling testDeleteme
─  installing *source* package ‘testDeleteme’ ...
   ** using staged installation
─  DONE (testDeleteme) (1.7s)
Writing NAMESPACE
Writing testDeleteme-package.Rd
> devtools::load_all()
ℹ Loading testDeleteme
Re-compiling testDeleteme
─  installing *source* package ‘testDeleteme’ ...
   ** using staged installation
─  DONE (testDeleteme) (1.7s)
Error in getDLLRegisteredRoutines.DLLInfo(dll, addNames = FALSE) : 
  must specify DLL via a “DLLInfo” object. See getLoadedDLLs()

This happened both on Mac and Linux. Could it be something with the documentation package (I think it’s roxygen?)

And if I try to do devtools::check on one of my old packages (which was working before) now it crashes RStudio on the Mac…

I noticed symptoms of this first during the recent StanConnect event when I was trying to run the examples and started to get strange errors.

6

Actually, neither the development version of rstan or rstantools did not really do anything. Do you have any suggestions on where I can look to debug this better? Or what this might be related to? Not sure how to move forward with this and it happens on both Mac and Linux.

7

Ah, the issue is that R is trying to load functions when none exist. If you add a stan model to the inst/stan subdirectory, then the package is created and loads without issue. Make sure you follow the steps from the vignette for the rest: Step by step guide for creating a package that depends on RStan