Azure: there is no package called ‘dynlm’

Question

Context: I have uploaded the zip file of the proper package version related to the R version inside the src dir of the compute instance. I have the following code:

# R version: 3.5.1
# The script MUST contain a function named azureml_main
# which is the entry point for this module.

# Please note that functions dependant on X11 library
# such as "View" are not supported because X11 library
# is not pre-installed.

# The entry point function MUST have two input arguments.
# If the input port is not connected, the corresponding
# dataframe argument will be null.
#   Param<dataframe1>: a R DataFrame
#   Param<dataframe2>: a R DataFrame
azureml_main <- function(dataframe1, dataframe2)
  {
  print("script run.")
  install.packages("src/dynlm.zip", lib = ".",  repos = NULL, type = "source", dependencies = TRUE)
  print("Install phase passed.")
  library(dynlm)
  print("library phase passed.")
  require(zoo)
  require(stats)
    
  # Specify which Packages are required to run script. The dynlm package needs to be zipped up with this script to work in Azure ML.
  require(data.table)
  
  return(list(dataset1=dataframe1, dataset2=dataframe2))
}

I tried different solutions but I still get the error there is no package called ‘dynlm’ even though I think I clearly specify the installation. What can I do? Side details: before I did other tries, I did some downgrades

• pip:
  • azureml-core==1.54.0
  • cryptography<41

let me know if you need more context. I considered dockerizing the code

Answer 1

workaround:

install.packages("r-cran-dynlm", repos = "https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r-cran-dynlm", dependencies=TRUE)