Error in .make_numeric_version(x, strict, .standard_regexps()$valid_numeric_version) : invalid non-character version specification 'x' (type: double)

[danli349]

Hello:

I have to install an old version of ggplot2_3.4.2 because newer versions have compatibility issues with ArchR package (https://www.archrproject.com/index.html)
How should I solve this error:

packageurl <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ggplot2/ggplot2_3.4.2.tar.gz"
install.packages(packageurl, repos=NULL, type="source")

* installing *source* package ‘ggplot2’ ...
** package ‘ggplot2’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in .make_numeric_version(x, strict, .standard_regexps()$valid_numeric_version) :
  invalid non-character version specification 'x' (type: double)
Error: unable to load R code in package ‘ggplot2’
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘ggplot2’
* removing ‘/home/dan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.03/ggplot2’
Warning message:
In install.packages(packageurl, repos = NULL, type = "source") :
  installation of package ‘/tmp/Rtmpwk4sB5/downloaded_packages/ggplot2_3.4.2.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3;  LAPACK version 3.9.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C           LC_TIME=C.UTF-8
 [4] LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=C.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=C.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=C.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C              LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C         LC_MEASUREMENT=C.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

time zone: America/New_York
tzcode source: system (glibc)

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.4.1

Thanks a lot

[teunbrand]

Have you tried installing that version of ggplot2 using R 4.3.x? R 4.4.x had a change in is.atomic() that makes ggplot2 <3.4.4 incompatible.