Installation fails

[Prometheus77]

Trying to install this per the instructions in the README and it fails. Help troubleshooting?

Running RStudio Server on CentOS. I followed the instructions to run devtools::install_github("mb706/mlr", ref = "mb706_CPO") before starting.

Looks like it's breaking when it's trying to access mlrLearners.R, which I don't see in the R subdirectory. Here's my log:

> devtools::install_github("mlr-org/automlr")
Downloading GitHub repo mlr-org/automlr@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/mlr-org/automlr/zipball/master
Installing automlr
'/usr/lib64/R/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/tmp/RtmpaJKfvi/devtools7ea11b07fc6/mlr-org-automlr-8e74e08'  \
  --library='/home/mydir/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.4' --install-tests 

* installing *source* package ‘automlr’ ...
./configure: line 13: ./searchspaceconvert.py: Permission denied

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> library(checkmate)
> library(roxygen2)
> roxygenise()
First time using roxygen2. Upgrading automatically...
Loading required package: mlr
Loading required package: ParamHelpers
Loading required package: BBmisc
Loading required package: parallelMap
Error in readLines(con, warn = FALSE, n = n, ok = ok, skipNul = skipNul) : 
  cannot open the connection
Calls: roxygenise ... lapply -> FUN -> parse -> read_lines_enc -> readLines
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In normalizePath(file.path(path, "R", collate)) :
  path[8]="/tmp/RtmpaJKfvi/devtools7ea11b07fc6/mlr-org-automlr-8e74e08/R/mlrLearners.R": No such file or directory
2: In normalizePath(rfiles, winslash = "/") :
  path[8]="/tmp/RtmpaJKfvi/devtools7ea11b07fc6/mlr-org-automlr-8e74e08/R/mlrLearners.R": No such file or directory
3: In readLines(con, warn = FALSE, n = n, ok = ok, skipNul = skipNul) :
  cannot open file '/tmp/RtmpaJKfvi/devtools7ea11b07fc6/mlr-org-automlr-8e74e08/R/mlrLearners.R': No such file or directory
Execution halted
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘automlr’
* removing ‘/home/mydir/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.4/automlr’
Installation failed: Command failed (1)

[mb706]

Hi, thanks for your report! The problem appears to be the line

./configure: line 13: ./searchspaceconvert.py: Permission denied

Automlr has the database of sensible search space boundaries in a (more readable) org-mode file; searchspaceconvert.py is supposed to convert this and create the mlrLearners.R file. For some reason it appears that the python file does not have the executable permission.

Unfortunately, this works without problems on my machine. To help me diagnose this, please tell me which version of devtools you are using (packageVersion("devtools")), and send me the output you get when running

devtools::install_github("mlr-org/automlr", ref = "try_inst")