Distill template can't be rendered on Mac #207

relund · 2020-10-29T09:39:54Z

Trying to knit the template

---
title: "Untitled"
description: |
  A new article created using the Distill format.
author:
  - name: Nora Jones 
    url: https://example.com/norajones
    affiliation: Spacely Sprockets
    affiliation_url: https://example.com/spacelysprokets
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: distill::distill_article
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```

Distill is a publication format for scientific and technical writing, native to the web. 

Learn more about using Distill for R Markdown at <https://rstudio.github.io/distill>.

Gives error

Error in C_force_tz(time, tz = tzone, roll) : 
  CCTZ: Unrecognized output timezone: "Europe/Copenhagen"
Calls: <Anonymous> ... .parse_date_time -> .strptime -> force_tz -> C_force_tz
Execution halted

Any hints on how to fix?

SessionInfo

> devtools::session_info()
─ Session info ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
 os       macOS Catalina 10.15.7      
 system   x86_64, darwin19.6.0        
 ui       RStudio                     
 language (EN)                        
 collate  en_US.UTF-8                 
 ctype    en_US.UTF-8                 
 tz       Europe/Copenhagen           
 date     2020-10-29                  

─ Packages ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package     * version date       lib source                     
 assertthat    0.2.1   2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 backports     1.1.10  2020-09-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 callr         3.5.1   2020-10-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 cli           2.1.0   2020-10-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 crayon        1.3.4   2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 desc          1.2.0   2018-05-01 [1] github (r-lib/desc@ec81430)
 devtools      2.3.2   2020-09-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 digest        0.6.27  2020-10-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 distill       1.0     2020-10-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 downlit       0.2.0   2020-09-25 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 ellipsis      0.3.1   2020-05-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 evaluate      0.14    2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 fansi         0.4.1   2020-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 fs            1.5.0   2020-07-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 glue          1.4.2   2020-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 htmltools     0.5.0   2020-06-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 knitr         1.30    2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 magrittr      1.5     2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 memoise       1.1.0   2017-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 pkgbuild      1.1.0   2020-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 pkgload       1.1.0   2020-05-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 prettyunits   1.1.1   2020-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 processx      3.4.4   2020-09-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 ps            1.4.0   2020-10-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 R6            2.4.1   2019-11-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 remotes       2.2.0   2020-07-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 rlang         0.4.8   2020-10-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 rmarkdown     2.5     2020-10-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 rprojroot     1.3-2   2018-01-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 rstudioapi    0.11    2020-02-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 sessioninfo   1.1.1   2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 testthat      2.3.2   2020-03-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 usethis       1.6.3   2020-09-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 withr         2.3.0   2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 xfun          0.18    2020-09-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             
 yaml          2.2.1   2020-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)             

[1] /usr/local/lib/R/4.0/site-library
[2] /usr/local/Cellar/r/4.0.3/lib/R/library
```

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csdaw · 2020-10-30T11:06:55Z

I'm having the same issue since I last built my blog 4 days ago. It seems to be a problem just with distill blogs rather than distill websites as generating a brand new distill website project works fine but a distill blog fails with the same timezone error.

Things I've tried which haven't worked:

Reinstall RStudio (I'm on version 1.4 preview)
Reinstall distill from CRAN
Reinstall distill from GitHub (HEAD and an older commit)

Here is the error:

Error in C_force_tz(time, tz = tzone, roll) : 
  CCTZ: Unrecognized output timezone: "Europe/London"

And here is my devtools::session_info():

─ Session info ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
 os       macOS Catalina 10.15.7      
 system   x86_64, darwin17.0          
 ui       RStudio                     
 language (EN)                        
 collate  en_AU.UTF-8                 
 ctype    en_AU.UTF-8                 
 tz       Europe/London               
 date     2020-10-30                  

─ Packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package     * version date       lib source        
 assertthat    0.2.1   2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 backports     1.1.10  2020-09-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 callr         3.5.1   2020-10-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 cli           2.1.0   2020-10-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 crayon        1.3.4   2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 desc          1.2.0   2018-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 devtools      2.3.2   2020-09-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 digest        0.6.27  2020-10-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 distill       1.0     2020-10-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
 downlit       0.2.0   2020-09-25 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 ellipsis      0.3.1   2020-05-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 evaluate      0.14    2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 fansi         0.4.1   2020-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 fs            1.5.0   2020-07-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 generics      0.0.2   2018-11-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 glue          1.4.2   2020-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 htmltools     0.5.0   2020-06-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 knitr         1.30    2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 lubridate     1.7.9   2020-06-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 magrittr      1.5     2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 memoise       1.1.0   2017-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 pkgbuild      1.1.0   2020-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 pkgload       1.1.0   2020-05-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 prettyunits   1.1.1   2020-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 processx      3.4.4   2020-09-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 ps            1.4.0   2020-10-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 R6            2.5.0   2020-10-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
 Rcpp          1.0.5   2020-07-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 remotes       2.2.0   2020-07-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 rlang         0.4.8   2020-10-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 rmarkdown     2.5     2020-10-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.3)
 rprojroot     1.3-2   2018-01-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 rstudioapi    0.11    2020-02-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 sessioninfo   1.1.1   2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 stringi       1.5.3   2020-09-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 stringr       1.4.0   2019-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 testthat      2.3.2   2020-03-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 usethis       1.6.3   2020-09-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 whisker       0.4     2019-08-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 withr         2.3.0   2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 xfun          0.18    2020-09-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 yaml          2.2.1   2020-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)

[1] /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library

jjallaire · 2020-10-30T11:21:00Z

This may have been a change we made in the last release to emit locale independent RSS feeds for blogs. I've reverted that change here: c9c083b.

Could you try again installing from GitHub?

csdaw · 2020-10-30T11:36:07Z

I installed from c9c083b but I'm still getting the same error.

Going down the debugger rabbit hole I can see the error is coming from this line in distill:::parse_date():

parsed_date <- lubridate::mdy("10-30-2020", tz = distill:::safe_timezone(), quiet = TRUE)

Not sure how to fix it though.

jjallaire · 2020-10-30T12:34:27Z

@csdaw What is the output of OlsonNames() on your system?

@vspinu Here is the code we are executing:

tz <- Sys.timezone()
tz <- ifelse(is.na(tz), "UTC", tz)
lubridate::mdy("12/22/22", tz = tz, quiet = TRUE)

What condition would cause lubridate to throw this error?

Error in C_force_tz(time, tz = tzone, roll) : 
  CCTZ: Unrecognized output timezone: "Europe/London"

Is there a workaround you know of to ensure we don't halt when this occurs?

csdaw · 2020-10-30T14:07:24Z

I think I've solved the cause, its a bug with R v4.0.3.

I have access to another Mac with R v4.0.2 and distill blog posts render fine with no errors. And then just now when I upgrade to R v.4.0.3 the timezone error is produced.

Here is my dev tools::session_info() prior to upgrading:

─ Session info ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
 os       macOS Catalina 10.15.7      
 system   x86_64, darwin17.0          
 ui       RStudio                     
 language (EN)                        
 collate  en_AU.UTF-8                 
 ctype    en_AU.UTF-8                 
 tz       Europe/London               
 date     2020-10-30                  

─ Packages ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package     * version date       lib source        
 assertthat    0.2.1   2019-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 backports     1.1.10  2020-09-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 callr         3.4.4   2020-09-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 cli           2.0.2   2020-02-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 crayon        1.3.4   2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 desc          1.2.0   2018-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 devtools      2.3.2   2020-09-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 digest        0.6.25  2020-02-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 distill       1.0     2020-10-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 downlit       0.2.0   2020-09-25 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 ellipsis      0.3.1   2020-05-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 evaluate      0.14    2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 fansi         0.4.1   2020-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 fs            1.5.0   2020-07-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 glue          1.4.2   2020-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 htmltools     0.5.0   2020-06-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 knitr         1.30    2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 magrittr      1.5     2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 memoise       1.1.0   2017-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 pkgbuild      1.1.0   2020-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 pkgload       1.1.0   2020-05-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 prettyunits   1.1.1   2020-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 processx      3.4.4   2020-09-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 ps            1.3.4   2020-08-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 R6            2.4.1   2019-11-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 remotes       2.2.0   2020-07-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 rlang         0.4.7   2020-07-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 rmarkdown     2.5     2020-10-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 rprojroot     1.3-2   2018-01-03 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 rstudioapi    0.11    2020-02-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 sessioninfo   1.1.1   2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 testthat      2.3.2   2020-03-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)
 usethis       1.6.3   2020-09-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 withr         2.3.0   2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 xfun          0.18    2020-09-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)
 yaml          2.2.1   2020-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)

[1] /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library

I can give you the OlsonNames() output when I am back at home.

jjallaire · 2020-10-30T15:25:07Z

Sure enough there were timezone related changes in R 4.0.3, from NEWS:

On platforms using configure option --with-internal-tzcode, additional values "internal"
and (on macOS only) "macOS" are accepted for the environment variable TZDIR. (See ?TZDIR.)

On macOS, "macOS" is used by default if the system timezone database is a newer version
than that in the R installation.

jjallaire · 2020-10-30T23:15:27Z

Also reported on the lubridate repo: tidyverse/lubridate#928

jjallaire · 2020-10-31T10:51:49Z

@relund There are some things for you to try/investigate here: tidyverse/lubridate#928. Let us know what you find.

jjallaire · 2020-10-31T14:51:03Z

This appears to be the result of a bug in R 4.0.3 related to setting the TZDIR environment variable (which downstream code expects to be a path). Temporary workaround until this is fixed is here: cdcbd56 (note: timezone will be forced to UTC for parsing dates when this workaround is in effect)

jjallaire · 2020-11-02T00:14:08Z

Eric, my workaround may have been too narrowly targeted. I just pushed a fix to master that applies the workaound in all cases when running R 4.0.3. Could you try installing w/ devtools from master again and let me know what you find?

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On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 5:57 PM Eric Fletcher ***@***.***> wrote: @jjallaire <https://github.com/jjallaire> Can you please let me know how I can properly implement the temporary workaround provided above? I tried reinstalling the distill package with devtools as well as through Files / Plots / Packages / Help panel. Both throw the following error: [image: distill_blog_-main-_RStudio] <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/64165327/97817550-1be4f400-1c6b-11eb-841b-4b48b2423a36.png> R: 1R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) -- "Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out" Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit) RStudio: 1.4.953 "Wax Begonia" — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#207 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAZPR7CFHERFE3UMMDLLETSNXRUNANCNFSM4TDPKIUQ> .

iamericfletcher · 2020-11-02T00:18:43Z

@jjallaire

Everything is working fine now. I am able to knit, build, and push to GitHub with no errors.

Thank you!

jjallaire · 2020-11-02T00:45:32Z

Great!

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On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 7:18 PM Eric Fletcher ***@***.***> wrote: @jjallaire <https://github.com/jjallaire> Everything is working fine now. I am able to knit, build, and push to GitHub with no errors. Thank you! — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#207 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAZPR6W4FY42ZW3M74VWHDSNX3HBANCNFSM4TDPKIUQ> .

vspinu · 2020-11-02T14:36:57Z

This appears to be the result of a bug in R 4.0.3 related to setting the TZDIR environment variable (which downstream code expects to be a path).

@jjallaire Is this has been reported/confirmed as a bug in R?

jjallaire · 2020-11-02T19:00:17Z

Not that I'm aware of.

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 9:37 AM Vitalie Spinu ***@***.***> wrote: This appears to be the result of a bug in R 4.0.3 related to setting the TZDIR environment variable (which downstream code expects to be a path). @jjallaire <https://github.com/jjallaire> Is this has been reported/confirmed as a bug in R? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#207 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAZPRY7523UAGDGMNZHULTSN27ZRANCNFSM4TDPKIUQ> .

lubridate has now the fix for timezone on macOS. So the workaround for #207 is no more needed.

jjallaire closed this as completed Oct 31, 2020

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