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Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld edited comment on ARROW-12743 at 1/11/22, 9:53 AM:
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There seems to be a [bug in
\{remotes}|https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/issues/642] when trying to install
dependencies from the {{"Config/Needs/..."}} fields. The package or packages
listed there are installed, but not their dependencies.
Reprex (needs to be run inside a package that has {{Config/Needs/website:
pkgdown}} in DESCRIPTION:
{code:r}
# fs and memoise are pkgdown dependencies
remove.packages(c("pkgdown", "fs", "memoise"))
remotes::install_deps(".", dependencies = "Config/Needs/website")
packageVersion("pkgdown")
# [1] ‘2.0.1’
packageVersion("fs")
# Error in packageVersion("fs") : there is no package called ‘fs’
packageVersion("memoise")
# Error in packageVersion("memoise") : there is no package called ‘memoise’
{code}
adding {{"soft"}} or {{"hard"}} to {{dependencies}} works, but that seems
non-canonical use of those options and, thus, could change without warning.
{code:r}
remotes::install_deps(".", dependencies = c("hard", "Config/Needs/website"))
# or
remotes::install_deps(".", dependencies = c("soft", "Config/Needs/website"))
{code}
In conclusion, I propose we delay using the {{Config/Needs/...}} field in
DESCRIPTION until either the \{remotes} issue is solved or we switch to \{pak}
for package installation.
was (Author: dragosmg):
There seems to be a [bug in
\{remotes}|https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/issues/642] when trying to install
dependencies from the {{"Config/Needs/..."}} fields. The package or packages
listed there are installed, but not their dependencies.
Reprex (needs to be run inside a package that has {{Config/Needs/website:
pkgdown}} in DESCRIPTION:
{code:r}
# fs and memoise are pkgdown dependencies
remove.packages(c("pkgdown", "fs", "memoise"))
remotes::install_deps(".", dependencies = "Config/Needs/website")
packageVersion("pkgdown")
# [1] ‘2.0.1’
packageVersion("fs")
# Error in packageVersion("fs") : there is no package called ‘fs’
packageVersion("memoise")
# Error in packageVersion("memoise") : there is no package called ‘memoise’
{code}
adding {{"soft"}} or {{"hard"}} to {{dependencies}} works, but that seems
non-canonical use of those options and, thus, could change without warning.
{code:r}
remotes::install_deps(".", dependencies = c("hard", "Config/Needs/website"))
# or
remotes::install_deps(".", dependencies = c("soft", "Config/Needs/website"))
{code}
In conclusion, I propose we delay using the {{Config/Needs/...}} field in
DESCRIPTION until the \{remotes} issue is solved or we switch to \{pak} for
package installation.
> [R] Add additional DESCRIPTION fields for dev dependencies and update docs
> accordingly
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>
> Key: ARROW-12743
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12743
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: R
> Reporter: Nicola Crane
> Assignee: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 7.0.0
>
> Time Spent: 4h 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> Recent updates to the remotes package mean that additional fields can be
> added to a package's DESCRIPTION and remotes functions can take the field as
> a parameter and install these additional dependencies:
> https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/blob/master/NEWS.md#new-functions-and-features
> We could update DESCRIPTION to use these fields and update the docs to use
> this functionality of remotes instead of having separate references to
> packages to install.
>
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