Can't install (or load) Quanteda correctly about quanteda HOT 7 CLOSED

Guys, I could figure out what the problem is. I normally use VS code for writing R scripts, but if I want to install/update packages I usually do this in the R console (this tiny GUI that comes with R for Mac). It seems this caused all my problems. When I use the standard terminal and start R, RcppParallel::defaultNumThreads() works absolutely fine and I also could install Quanteda from source without problems.
So, this is kind of weird, but using the R console can't be recommended...

Thanks a lot for your efforts!

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Did you update Rcpp and RcppParallel?

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Did you update Rcpp and RcppParallel?

Yes. All packages are up to date.

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I use the same platform (macOS, M1 Max) and it installs fine. Could you include the output of sessionInfo()?

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I use the same platform (macOS, M1 Max) and it installs fine. Could you include the output of sessionInfo()?

That is my setting:

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.1.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.11.0

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

time zone: Europe/Berlin
tzcode source: internal

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.3.1

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After a few hours of further investigation I could collect some more details, that might be interesting. First, when I use CRAN to install Quanteda, the segfault issue during loading Quanteda is directly linked to the RcppParallel package. The RcppParallel::defaultNumThreads() method itself produces the segfault, even though I set the number of threads before. Here is what I tested:

> library("RcppParallel")
> setThreadOptions(numThreads=4)
> defaultNumThreads()

 *** caught segfault ***
address 0x245, cause 'invalid permissions'

RcppParallel is up to date and I also tried to reinstall it from source. However, the issue with defaultNumThreads() couldn't be fixed by reinstalling.

Second, if I try to install different versions of Quanteda from source, I always get the 'non-zero exit code' message. Although I can install Quanteda 3.3.1 from CRAN without problems, building the same version of Quanteda from source

> require(devtools)
> Sys.setenv("R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS" = "true")
> remotes::install_github("quanteda/quanteda", ref="v3_3")

fails with non-zero exit code.

Is it possible, that RcppParallel is somehow the reason for both problems?

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That's strange! Might have to do with different environment variables. There are also sometimes differences on where packages get installed, and I remember an issue where some were in system directories and some in user directories - and I even had two versions (one in each place) depending on how I'd installed them. I changed this by fixing my .libPaths() setting to a single installation folder. And by checking them using View(installed.packages()).

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