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`Could not solve package dependencies` error when trying to install github dependency rather than cran version #460

Closed billdenney closed 1 year ago

billdenney commented 1 year ago

The issue is illustrated here:

https://github.com/nlmixr2/rxode2/actions/runs/4034485677/jobs/6935733544#step:6:150

We want to install the github version of the package rxode2parse rather than the CRAN version, so we are using the following in our GitHub actions:

https://github.com/nlmixr2/rxode2/blob/29ccacdacb66d51f50ec3872ede162b8d109f107/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml#L51-L62

I would have thought that the manual installation of the GitHub version there would override the automatic installation of the CRAN version, but that does not seem to be the case.

Is there a better installation method for GitHub actions to use a certain set of packages from GitHub instead of CRAN?

(FYI, @mattfidler)

mattfidler commented 1 year ago

This is because dparser on CRAN is the wrong version for rxode2parse. Simply put the dparser github dependency to solve this issue.