windows 10 - cannot install on R 4.0.3

[developertest1234]

Not sure but latest release was failing for me using stand install and command line:

Error in system(sprintf("%s -Pg %s", nm, shQuote(f)), intern = TRUE) :
'""' not found

command issued

c:\Program Files\R\R-4.0.3\bin\R.exe" CMD INSTALL . 

....
"C:/rtools40/mingw64/bin/"g++  -std=gnu++17 -I"c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.3/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -I../inst/include -DDUCKDB_DISABLE_PRINT -DDUCKDB_R_BUILD -Iduckdb/src/include -Iduckdb/third_party/fmt/include -Iduckdb/third_party/fsst -Iduckdb/third_party/re2 -Iduckdb/third_party/miniz -Iduckdb/third_party/utf8proc/include -Iduckdb/third_party/utf8proc -Iduckdb/third_party/hyperloglog -Iduckdb/third_party/fastpforlib -Iduckdb/third_party/tdigest -Iduckdb/third_party/libpg_query/include -Iduckdb/third_party/libpg_query -Iduckdb/third_party/concurrentqueue -Iduckdb/third_party/pcg -Iduckdb/third_party/httplib -Iduckdb/third_party/fast_float -Iduckdb/third_party/mbedtls -Iduckdb/third_party/mbedtls/include -Iduckdb/third_party/mbedtls/library -Iduckdb/third_party/jaro_winkler -Iduckdb/third_party/jaro_winkler/details -Iduckdb/extension/parquet/include -Iduckdb/third_party/parquet -Iduckdb/third_party/snappy -Iduckdb/third_party/thrift -Iduckdb/third_party/zstd/include -I../inst/include -Iduckdb -DDUCKDB_EXTENSION_PARQUET_LINKED -DDUCKDB_BUILD_LIBRARY -DDUCKDB_PLATFORM_RTOOLS=1         -O2 -Wall  -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mstackrealign -c types.cpp -o types.o
"C:/rtools40/mingw64/bin/"g++  -std=gnu++17 -I"c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.3/include" -DNDEBUG -Iinclude -I../inst/include -DDUCKDB_DISABLE_PRINT -DDUCKDB_R_BUILD -Iduckdb/src/include -Iduckdb/third_party/fmt/include -Iduckdb/third_party/fsst -Iduckdb/third_party/re2 -Iduckdb/third_party/miniz -Iduckdb/third_party/utf8proc/include -Iduckdb/third_party/utf8proc -Iduckdb/third_party/hyperloglog -Iduckdb/third_party/fastpforlib -Iduckdb/third_party/tdigest -Iduckdb/third_party/libpg_query/include -Iduckdb/third_party/libpg_query -Iduckdb/third_party/concurrentqueue -Iduckdb/third_party/pcg -Iduckdb/third_party/httplib -Iduckdb/third_party/fast_float -Iduckdb/third_party/mbedtls -Iduckdb/third_party/mbedtls/include -Iduckdb/third_party/mbedtls/library -Iduckdb/third_party/jaro_winkler -Iduckdb/third_party/jaro_winkler/details -Iduckdb/extension/parquet/include -Iduckdb/third_party/parquet -Iduckdb/third_party/snappy -Iduckdb/third_party/thrift -Iduckdb/third_party/zstd/include -I../inst/include -Iduckdb -DDUCKDB_EXTENSION_PARQUET_LINKED -DDUCKDB_BUILD_LIBRARY -DDUCKDB_PLATFORM_RTOOLS=1         -O2 -Wall  -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mstackrealign -c cpp11.cpp -o cpp11.o
**Error in system(sprintf("%s -Pg %s", nm, shQuote(f)), intern = TRUE) :
  '""' not found**
Calls: <Anonymous> -> lapply -> FUN -> strsplit -> system
Execution halted
make: *** [c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.3/share/make/winshlib.mk:32: symbols.rds] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'duckdb'
* removing 'C:/Users/u365042/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/duckdb'

[krlmlr]

Thanks. Can you please try with R 4.3?

[Antonov548]

I have found in Rtools folder nm executable. In my case it was: C:/rtools43/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/bin/nm.exe.
After setting Sys.setenv(UserNM = "C:/rtools43/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/bin/nm.exe") it works fine.

[krlmlr]

@developertest1234: Is this still an issue?