A few years ago a Google Summer of Code project for Gentoo sough to [[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas#Automatically_generated_overlay_of_R_packages|Automatically generate[d] overlay of R packages]] and was undertaken by Andre Erdman resulting in the [[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/R_overlay.git/|R_Overlay]]. Maintenance and development of the [[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/R_overlay.git/|R_Overlay]] is now carried out bye Benda Xu. Whilst some disagree that ebuilds [[https://cran.r-project.org/|R packages]] belong in portage (e.g. [[https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2015/04/05/why-we-do-not-have-nor-want-r-packages-in-the-tree/|Denis Dupyren]] who it appears mentored the original project) this is a feature I have long sought as it makes installing and maintaining R packages across Gentoo systems as easy as copying ''/var/lib/portage/world'' and is a bit simpler than maintaining an external script or code for setting up new (Gentoo) systems. I detail below the migration to using the [[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/R_overlay.git/|R_Overlay]]. ====== Add the R_overlay ====== The [[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/R_overlay.git/|R_Overlay]] is in [[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Layman|layman]], adding the overlay is trivial... emerge -av layman layman -a R_overlay Modify ''/etc/portage/repos.conf/layman.conf'' to add the ''sync-type'' and turn on automatic synchornisation... [R_Overlay] priority = 50 location = /var/lib/layman/R_Overlay layman-type = rsync # ToDo - reconcile layman-type and git repository # sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/R_overlay.git # sync-type = git auto-sync = Yes The overlay will now be updated when you use ''eix-sync'' (or ''emerge --sync'' which is called in the background by ''eix-sync''). ====== dev-lang/R minimal ====== Initial forays led to conflicts with some packages requiring ''USE=minimal dev-lang/R'' and others requiring ''USE=-minimal dev-lang/R''. After mailing the [[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Science|Gentoo Science]] mailing list Benda Xu, the current maintainer of [[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/R_overlay.git/|R_Overlay]], [[https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-science/message/4d9aa276f142701ee120b6062461af81|advised that ''USE=minimal'']] should be the correct approach because ''USE=-minimal'' builds R with a few [[https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/3.4.4/Recommended/|recommended packages]] packages which are sometimes outdated and will not always meet the requirements of other packages from [[https://cran.r-project.org/|CRAN]]. If you do not already have ''USE=minimal dev-lang/R'' installed then add the appropriate USE flag and re-emerge... echo 'dev-lang/R minimal' >> /etc/portage/package.use/dev-lang emerge -av dev-lang/R ====== Install Packages ====== [[https://www.r-project.org/|R]] and [[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/R_overlay.git/|R_Overlay]] are now installed and you can install R packages directly using portage. What these will be are highly user dependent so I can only demonstrate what I have installed and the problems I encountered, but the following installs the [[https://tidyverse.org/|tidyverse]] meta-package which pulls in a large number of very useful packages along with the [[https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/3.4.4/Recommended/|recommended packages]], various [[|GGplot2 extensions]] and a number of popular modelling packages. # Tidyverse... emerge -av tidyverse # ggplot2 extensions emerge -av ggridges ggraph ggrepel ggnetwork ggmosaic gglasso ggimage ggforce gge ggalt ggROC ggHorizon ggExtra ggbeeswarm # Recommended (not necessarily the recommend version though, will pull in latest from CRAN) emerge -av KernSmooth MASS Matrix boot class sci-CRAN/cluster sci-CRAN/codetools foreign lattice mgcv nlme nnet rpart spatial survival # Modelling emerge -av lme4 glmnet Hmisc rms epitools # Sample Size emerge -av pwr TrialSize longpower simglm clusterPower samplesize PowerTOST # Miscellaneous emerge -av blockrand bookdown sci-CRAN/shiny rmarkdown ===== Manually Install Failed Packages ===== For various reasons a number of packages fail to install either directly or because of required dependencies (more on this below). These can be manually installed from R (as root) using... # Install remaining tidyverse packages and dependancies install.packages(c("hms", "forcats", "xml2", "lubridate", "selectr", "mnormt", "rematch", "foreign", "readr", "rvest", "cellranger", "nlme", "readxl", "haven", "psych", "broom", "modelr", "tidyverse")) # Install remaining ggplot2 extensions and dependancies install.packages(c("ggraph", "gge", "ggimage", "ggraph")) # Install remaining recommended packages and dependancies install.packages(c("KernSmooth", "MASS", "Matrix", "boot", "class", "cluster", "codetools", "foreign", "lattice", "mgcv", "nlme", "nnet", "rpart", "spatial", "survival")) # Install remaining modelling packages and dependancies install.packages(c("lme4", "glmnet", "Hmisc", "rms", "epitools")) # Install remaining sample size packages and dependancies # Miscellaneous install.packages(c("blockrand", "bookdown", "shiny", "rmarkdown")) ====== SystemRequirement problems ====== I found that not every package on [[https://cran.r-project.org/|CRAN]] is available in [[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/R_overlay.git/|R_Overlay]] (e.g. [[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/blogdown/|blogdown]]) and that in some instances only ebuilds for old package versions were included in R_Overlay that did not meet the requirements of other packages. For example two dependencies of the [[https://tidyverse.org/|tidyverse]] are as of writing [[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xml2/|xml2-1.2.0]] and [[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lubridate/|lubridate-1.7.3]] but the versions in R_overlay are 0.1.2 and 1.7.0 respectively. Both of these issues have a common root in that it is due to the packages specified ''SystemRequirements'', in the first instance [[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/blogdown/|blogdown]] requires [[https://gohugo.io/|Hugo framework]] which isn't currently in Portage, whilst[[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xml2/|xml2]] has dependencies on [[http://www.xmlsoft.org/|libxml2]] that could not be parsed when generating the ebuild. Benda has asked if would contact R developers to request moving towards machine-readable definitions of ''SystemRequirements'' in the ''DESCRIPTION'' file of R packages which are currently [[http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/description.html#pkg-description|plain text]] and not automatically checked by packages themselves when installing. This is something that would need to be resolved upstream in R packages for R_Overlay to work well (hence Benda's request). ====== Not There Yet ====== As you can see quite a number of problems that are yet to be overcome still exist in using [[https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/R_overlay.git/|R_Overlay]], but that an automated overlay exists is a HUGE step forward to R packages being handled in the same manner as Perl or Python modules. ===== Outdated Builds ===== These are likely down to the above issues with ''SystemRequirements'' not being parsed, the following package sources could not be retrieved. # grep '404 Not Found' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/*/temp/build.log -B3 | grep contrib /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggHorizon-0.1/temp/build.log---2018-03-22 10:10:21-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ggHorizon_0.1.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggimage-0.0.2/temp/build.log---2018-03-22 10:10:35-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ggimage_0.0.2.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/igraph-1.1.2/temp/build.log---2018-03-22 10:09:30-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/igraph_1.1.2.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/lubridate-1.7.0/temp/build.log---2018-03-26 11:15:41-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/lubridate_1.7.0.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/Rcpp-0.12.15/temp/build.log---2018-03-22 09:11:46-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Rcpp_0.12.15.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/rgl-0.95.1441/temp/build.log---2018-03-26 11:23:58-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/rgl_0.95.1441.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/xml2-0.1.2/temp/build.log---2018-03-26 11:15:01-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/xml2_0.1.2.tar.gz ===== Chekcsums Failed ===== Some packages failed because the [[|''Checksum'']] of the retrieved source package didn't match what was expected... # grep 'checksum' -i /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/*/temp/build.log -B60 | grep contrib /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/Matrix-1.2.12/temp/build.log---2018-03-26 12:34:13-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Matrix_1.2-12.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/mvtnorm-1.0.7/temp/build.log---2018-03-26 12:33:25-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/mvtnorm_1.0-7.tar.gz /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/nloptr-1.0.4/temp/build.log---2018-03-26 12:33:05-- http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/nloptr_1.0.4.tar.gz ===== File Not Found ===== A number of packages failed //after// installation within R had completed when Portage could not find a file. The output looks like... * Package: sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5 * Repository: R_Overlay * USE: abi_x86_64 amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU * FEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox userpriv usersandbox * installing *source* package ‘abind’ ... ** package ‘abind’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded * DONE (abind) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/portage/python3.5/doins.py", line 611, in sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:])) File "/usr/lib/portage/python3.5/doins.py", line 602, in main os.path.dirname(source)): File "/usr/lib/portage/python3.5/doins.py", line 450, in _doins return install_runner.install_file(source, os.path.dirname(dest)) File "/usr/lib/portage/python3.5/doins.py", line 386, in install_file return self._ins_runner.run(source, dest_dir) File "/usr/lib/portage/python3.5/doins.py", line 195, in run sstat = os.stat(source) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5/work/abindy' * ERROR: sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5::R_Overlay failed (install phase): * doins failed * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5::R_Overlay'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5::R_Overlay'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5/work/abind-1.4.5' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5/work/abind-1.4.5' ...and the packages that failed in this manner are... # grep 'FileNotFound' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/*/temp/build.log /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/abind-1.4.5/work/abindy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/acepack-1.4.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/acepack-1.4.1/work/acepacky' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/backports-1.1.2/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/backports-1.1.2/work/backportsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/bitops-1.0.6-r1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/bitops-1.0.6-r1/work/bitopsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/blockrand-1.3-r1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/blockrand-1.3-r1/work/blockrandy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/boot-1.3.20/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/boot-1.3.20/work/booty' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/class-7.3.14/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/class-7.3.14/work/classy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/cluster-2.0.6/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/cluster-2.0.6/work/clustery' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/codetools-0.2.15/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/codetools-0.2.15/work/codetoolsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/cubature-1.3.11/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/cubature-1.3.11/work/cubaturey' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/epitools-0.5.10/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/epitools-0.5.10/work/epitoolsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/evaluate-0.10.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/evaluate-0.10.1/work/evaluatey' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/fftwtools-0.9.8/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/fftwtools-0.9.8/work/fftwtoolsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/forcats-0.3.0/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/forcats-0.3.0/work/forcatsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/foreign-0.8.69/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/foreign-0.8.69/work/foreigny' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/Formula-1.2.2/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/Formula-1.2.2/work/Formulay' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggalt-0.4.0/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggalt-0.4.0/work/ggalty' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggbeeswarm-0.6.0/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggbeeswarm-0.6.0/work/ggbeeswarmy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggExtra-0.7/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggExtra-0.7/work/ggExtray' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggforce-0.1.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggforce-0.1.1/work/ggforcey' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/gglasso-1.4/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/gglasso-1.4/work/gglassoy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggmosaic-0.1.2/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggmosaic-0.1.2/work/ggmosaicy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggnetwork-0.5.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggnetwork-0.5.1/work/ggnetworky' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggrepel-0.7.0/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggrepel-0.7.0/work/ggrepely' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggridges-0.4.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggridges-0.4.1/work/ggridgesy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggROC-1.0/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/ggROC-1.0/work/ggROCy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/highr-0.6/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/highr-0.6/work/highry' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/hms-0.4.2/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/hms-0.4.2/work/hmsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/iterators-1.0.9/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/iterators-1.0.9/work/iteratorsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/jpeg-0.1.8-r1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/jpeg-0.1.8-r1/work/jpegy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/KernSmooth-2.23.15/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/KernSmooth-2.23.15/work/KernSmoothy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/lattice-0.20.35/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/lattice-0.20.35/work/latticey' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/latticeExtra-0.6.28/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/latticeExtra-0.6.28/work/latticeExtray' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/locfit-1.5.9.1-r1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/locfit-1.5.9.1-r1/work/locfity' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/markdown-0.8/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/markdown-0.8/work/markdowny' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/MASS-7.3.49/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/MASS-7.3.49/work/MASSy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/MatrixModels-0.4.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/MatrixModels-0.4.1/work/MatrixModelsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/minqa-1.2.4/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/minqa-1.2.4/work/minqay' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/mnormt-1.5.5/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/mnormt-1.5.5/work/mnormty' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/nipals-0.4/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/nipals-0.4/work/nipalsy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/nlme-3.1.131.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/nlme-3.1.131.1/work/nlmey' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/nnet-7.3.12/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/nnet-7.3.12/work/nnety' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/png-0.1.7-r1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/png-0.1.7-r1/work/pngy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/polspline-1.1.12/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/polspline-1.1.12/work/polspliney' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/proto-1.0.0/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/proto-1.0.0/work/protoy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/pwr-1.2.2/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/pwr-1.2.2/work/pwry' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/rematch-1.0.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/rematch-1.0.1/work/rematchy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/rpart-4.1.13/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/rpart-4.1.13/work/rparty' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/rstudioapi-0.7/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/rstudioapi-0.7/work/rstudioapiy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/samplesize-0.2.4/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/samplesize-0.2.4/work/samplesizey' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/selectr-0.3.2/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/selectr-0.3.2/work/selectry' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/shiny-1.0.5/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/shiny-1.0.5/work/shinyy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/SparseM-1.77/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/SparseM-1.77/work/SparseMy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/spatial-7.3.11/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/spatial-7.3.11/work/spatialy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/TeachingDemos-2.10/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/TeachingDemos-2.10/work/TeachingDemosy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/tiff-0.1.5-r1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/tiff-0.1.5-r1/work/tiffy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/TrialSize-1.3-r1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/TrialSize-1.3-r1/work/TrialSizey' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/viridis-0.5.0/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/viridis-0.5.0/work/viridisy' /var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/zoo-1.8.1/temp/build.log:FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/var/tmp/portage/sci-CRAN/zoo-1.8.1/work/zooy' What is common across all of these is that all the missing files have a ''y'' appended to them which may be down to a bug in the way the ebuilds for CRAN packages are automatically generated.