`setupModule` with GitHub .R file - errors are misleading and module ends up in "wrong place" about spades.project HOT 3 OPEN

A couple thoughts:

1. GitHub.com doesn't offer a way to "zip" parts of a repository. Currently all downloading from GitHub for a repository relies on this approach.
2. Either, we download the whole repository in a zip, then pull out only the parts we want (the subfolders) or we have to manually get all the parts to a module, which will be difficult. I don't see this as a viable solution. it is like trying to get an R package by chosing each file one by one (DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, R/functions.R, R/setup.R, etc.)

Unless there is a way to "zip" a folder on GitHub, it seems like we will have to do the first option, download or clone the repository, then pull out the desired subfolder.

from spades.project.

UPDATE:
I see a similar behaviour running setupProject

Require::Require("CeresBarros/SpaDES.project@52-toolsfile_extmodules-returns-r-not-r-")
out <- setupProject(
  name = "castorExample",
  paths = list("inputPath" = "inputs/",
               "outputPath" = "outputs/",
               "modulePath" = "modules/",
               "packagePath" = "packages/", 
               "cachePath" = "reproducible.cache/",
               "projectPath" = "."),
  modules = c("bcgov/castor@main/R/SpaDES-modules/dataCastor/dataCastor.R"),
              ),
  Restart = FALSE
)

from spades.project.