pak does not find binary packages for R 4.3 on intel mac

[heavywatal]

> pak::meta_clean()
? Do you want to delete all package metadata (Y/n) y
ℹ Cleaning up cache directory /Users/watal/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/pkgcache/_metadata.
> pak::cache_clean()
> pak::cache_delete()
> pak::pkg_install("rlang")

→ Will install 1 package.
→ Will download 1 CRAN package (761.99 kB).
+ rlang   1.1.0 👷 🏾‍♂️🔧 (761.99 kB)
ℹ Getting 1 pkg (761.99 kB)
✔ Got rlang 1.1.0 (source) (761.99 kB)                             
✔ Downloaded 1 package (761.99 kB)in 446ms                         
ℹ Building rlang 1.1.0
✔ Built rlang 1.1.0 (10.5s)                                 
✔ Installed rlang 1.1.0  (37ms)                               
✔ 1 pkg: added 1, dld 1 (761.99 kB) [11.3s] 

while utils::install.packages() does

> install.packages("rlang")
Installing package into ‘/Users/watal/.R/library/4.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/big-sur-x86_64/contrib/4.3/rlang_1.1.0.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1889157 bytes (1.8 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.8 MB

The downloaded binary packages are in
        /var/folders/xr/721w1dc555xgjz3kx35bsx900000gn/T//RtmpLuGuQ5/downloaded_packages

[gaborcsardi]

What version of pak is this? How did you install it?

[heavywatal]

pak 0.5 was installed with install.packages("pak"). This is the only one in my R_LIBS_USER so far.

[heavywatal]

Embedded packages look old: pkgcache is 2.0.4 and pkgdepends is 0.4.0.

[gaborcsardi]

Probably because CRAN does not have binaries for pak (and pkgcache and pkgdepends) yet. We can probably improve this in the future.

For now, you can install it like this: https://pak.r-lib.org/#arrow_down-installation

This also works:

source("https://pak.r-lib.org/install.R")

[heavywatal]

Confirmed binary pak from GitHub has correct pkgcache and pkgdepends, and they work as expected. Thank you.

CRAN seems to be providing binary packages already: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/big-sur-x86_64/contrib/4.3/. I guess CRAN built pak binary with old pkgcache and pkgdepends slightly before the new ones become available.

[gaborcsardi]

Yes, that is unfortunate. I'll submit a dummy update to get it rebuilt, and add some safeguard to install dependencies from source, it the source versions are newer, when building the pak binary.

[gaborcsardi]

I need to wait one more day, it seems, to make it the required seven days between updates.

[gaborcsardi]

New version submitted: https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/488