CRAN install of devtools 2.0 fails on CentOS 7.4

Question

I'm trying to install the latest devtools from CRAN. It's failing on install with some poorly defined segfault. Is this indicative of some kind of R distribution error?

 *** caught segfault ***

address (nil), cause 'unknown'

Traceback:
 1: fun(libname, pkgname)
 2: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
 3: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
 4: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
 5: tryCatch(fun(libname, pkgname), error = identity)
 6: runHook(".onLoad", env, package.lib, package)
 7: loadNamespace(name)
 8: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
 9: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
10: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
11: tryCatch(loadNamespace(name), error = function(e) stop(e))
12: getNamespace(ns)
13: asNamespace(ns)
14: getExportedValue(pkg, name)
15: ps::ps_is_supported
16: fun(libname, pkgname)
17: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
18: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
19: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
20: tryCatch(fun(libname, pkgname), error = identity)
21: runHook(".onLoad", env, package.lib, package)
22: loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]])
23: asNamespace(ns)
24: namespaceImportFrom(ns, loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc,     .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]), i[[2L]], from = package)
25: loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]])
26: asNamespace(ns)
27: namespaceImportFrom(ns, loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc,     .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]), i[[2L]], from = package)
28: loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]])
29: asNamespace(ns)
30: namespaceImportFrom(ns, loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc,     .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]), i[[2L]], from = package)
31: loadNamespace(package, lib.loc, keep.source, partial = TRUE)
32: withCallingHandlers(expr, packageStartupMessage = function(c) invokeRestart("muffleMessage"))
33: suppressPackageStartupMessages(loadNamespace(package, lib.loc,     keep.source, partial = TRUE))
34: code2LazyLoadDB(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, keep.source = keep.source,     compress = compress)
35: makeLazyLoading(pkg_name, lib, keep.source = keep.source)
36: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
37: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
38: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
39: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) {    call <- conditionCall(e)    if (!is.null(call)) {        if (identical(call[[1L]], quote(doTryCatch)))             call <- sys.call(-4L)        dcall <- deparse(call)[1L]        prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ")        LONG <- 75L        sm <- strsplit(conditionMessage(e), "\n")[[1L]]        w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "w") + nchar(sm[1L], type = "w")        if (is.na(w))             w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + nchar(sm[1L],                 type = "b")        if (w > LONG)             prefix <- paste0(prefix, "\n  ")    }    else prefix <- "Error : "    msg <- paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n")    .Internal(seterrmessage(msg[1L]))    if (!silent && isTRUE(getOption("show.error.messages"))) {        cat(msg, file = outFile)        .Internal(printDeferredWarnings())    }    invisible(structure(msg, class = "try-error", condition = e))})
40: try({    suppressPackageStartupMessages(.getRequiredPackages(quietly = TRUE))    makeLazyLoading(pkg_name, lib, keep.source = keep.source)})
41: do_install_source(pkg_name, instdir, pkg, desc)
42: do_install(pkg)
43: tools:::.install_packages()
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...

Some additional context:

I am running a custom compiled build of R 3.5.1 for openBLAS and am setting a custom personal directory to install packages.

Answer 1

It is most likely the result of a broken package in your package library, but you would need to give more context to know for certain.