Failing installation - dependency about pkgreviewr HOT 4 CLOSED

Thanks for letting me know and experimenting with the package @amrrs!

Hmmm, OK it looks l like something to do with remote install dependencies clashing with dependecies already installed?

pkgrevier is running off the devel version of usethis. I wonder if this might cause clashes with local installs of CRAN usethis 🤨 or dependencies of the packages? Also the github api package is a remote install.

In your print out I can see:

Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘git2r’
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Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘curl’
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Warning: cannot remove prior installation of package ‘git2r’

Yiikes, it's trying to install git2r twice? so let me see if I can investigate and find a more stable solution.

Can I ask, have you already got usethis installed from CRAN?

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It often happens to me with devtools::install_github and in that case I close my R session, remove the packages by hand before re-installing them, but I agree that it's a bit radical.

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Yeah this doesn't sound like a smooth or polite install for users!

As a short term fix I could just switch the dependency back to the CRAN usethis version and just source the use_template function through ::: (it is non-exported on CRAN but exported on github) and hope that fixes it. But longer term, I need to sort out all the ::: functions I'm currently depending on! 😬

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So recent usethis release now exports the use_template function! So I've changed the dependency to the CRAN version. @amrrs does this fix the install problems you were having?

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