I'm using R 3.4.4 and Ubuntu 16.04 and following gert installation instructions here. I have installed libgit2-dev, but gert installation crashes with the error below:
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** caught illegal operation ***
address 0x7fbf6f06b405, cause 'illegal operand'
Traceback:
1: .Call(R_git_config_list, NULL)
2: git_config_global()
3: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
4: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
5: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
6: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) { call <- conditionCall(e) if (!is.null(call)) { if (identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch))) call <- sys.call(-4L) dcall <- deparse(call)[1L] prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ") LONG <- 75L msg <- conditionMessage(e) sm <- strsplit(msg, "
")[[1L]] w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "w") if (is.na(w)) w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "b") if (w > LONG) prefix <- paste0(prefix, "
") } else prefix <- "Error : " msg <- paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "
") .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1L])) if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"), TRUE)) { cat(msg, file = outFile) .Internal(printDeferredWarnings()) } invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error", condition = e))})
7: try({ settings <- git_config_global() name <- subset(settings, name == "user.name")$value email <- subset(settings, name == "user.email")$value if (length(name) || length(email)) { packageStartupInform("Default user: %s <%s>", as_string(name), as_string(email)) } else { packageStartupInform("No default user configured") }})
8: fun(libname, pkgname)
9: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
10: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
11: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
12: tryCatch(fun(libname, pkgname), error = identity)
13: runHook(".onAttach", ns, dirname(nspath), nsname)
14: attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps)
15: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
16: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
17: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
18: tryCatch({ attr(package, "LibPath") <- which.lib.loc ns <- loadNamespace(package, lib.loc) env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps)}, error = function(e) { P <- if (!is.null(cc <- conditionCall(e))) paste(" in", deparse(cc)[1L]) else "" msg <- gettextf("package or namespace load failed for %s%s:
%s", sQuote(package), P, conditionMessage(e)) if (logical.return) message(paste("Error:", msg), domain = NA) else stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)})
19: library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE)
20: withCallingHandlers(expr, packageStartupMessage = function(c) invokeRestart("muffleMessage"))
21: suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE))
22: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
23: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
24: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
25: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) { call <- conditionCall(e) if (!is.null(call)) { if (identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch))) call <- sys.call(-4L) dcall <- deparse(call)[1L] prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ") LONG <- 75L msg <- conditionMessage(e) sm <- strsplit(msg, "
")[[1L]] w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "w") if (is.na(w)) w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "b") if (w > LONG) prefix <- paste0(prefix, "
") } else prefix <- "Error : " msg <- paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "
") .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1L])) if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"), TRUE)) { cat(msg, file = outFile) .Internal(printDeferredWarnings()) } invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error", condition = e))})
26: try(suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE)))
27: tools:::.test_load_package("gert", "/home/viktoriya/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4")
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...
Illegal instruction (core dumped)
ERROR: loading failed
Please help.
question from:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65901633/r-crashes-with-caught-illegal-operation-when-installing-gert 
