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sboysel / fredr

An R client for the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API
https://sboysel.github.io/fredr/
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Unable to Install (Broken Dependency?) #100

Closed gionikola closed 2 years ago

gionikola commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I'm unable to install and load the fredr package in a GitHub Actions job that installs the latest version of R on a machine running the latest version of Ubuntu.

Running install.packages() gives the following error: "ERROR: dependency ‘httr’ is not available for package ‘fredr’"

I've tried installing httr separately, but that doesn't seem to work either.

Here's a link to the latest job fail: https://github.com/gionikola/data-reports/actions/runs/2357378203

DavisVaughan commented 2 years ago

httr failed to install because curl failed to install. curl failed to install because the GHA worker doesn't have libcurl installed on it. It is here in the error log https://github.com/gionikola/data-reports/runs/6522276501?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:942

You could probably add a DESCRIPTION file to your repo even though it isn't a package, and then use the standard setup-r-dependencies action. That uses {pak} and other tools that will install the system dependencies like libcurl for you https://github.com/r-lib/actions/tree/v2-branch/setup-r-dependencies

This isn't a fredr issue though, so ill close

gionikola commented 2 years ago

That did the trick -- thank you!