install_github("joachim-gassen/tidycovid19") does not work (dependency 'wbstats' is not available)

[rmartischang]

Dear all,

I recently re-tried to install tidycovid on R v4.0 from the function install_github. Everything worked perfectly except for the dependency : wbstats. I received the error message :

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/usr/Documents/R/win-library/4.0’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) ERROR: dependency 'wbstats' is not available for package 'tidycovid19'

• removing 'C:/Users/usr/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/tidycovid19'

When checking on CRAN, I just saw that the package has been removed : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wbstats/index.html

Would you know how to handle this issue ?

Kind regards,

[joachim-gassen]

Hi there!

Thanks for bringing this up. It seems as if wbstats was (temporarily) removed from CRAN most likely as it failed to cleanly pass CMD CHECK on too many platforms. While I am confident that the maintainer of the package will address this issue soon, you might want to see whether installing the Github version (https://github.com/nset-ornl/wbstats) via remotes::install_github('nset-ornl/wbstats') prior to installing tidycovid19 works for you.

Thanks for letting us know whether this works for you,

Joachim

[rmartischang]

Dear Joachim,

I installed wbstats with the code you indicated and "tidycovid19" works now perfectly,

Many thanks for your help

[joachim-gassen]

Glad that it helped. I will leave this issue open for a while until the underlying issue in wbstats is fixed.

[joachim-gassen]

Closing this now as wbstats is back on CRAN.