Install `citeproc` instead of `pandoc-citeproc` when latter required

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, r
Domain
ci-cd, tooling

Research direction

Begin with the linked DESCRIPTION entry requiring pandoc-citeproc and reproduce the intermittent failure in the referenced GitHub Actions run. Compare pak's handling of that system dependency with the superseding citeproc package; done means the dependency can be installed reliably without requiring pandoc-citeproc.

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Description

bug

Thank you for this really useful package.

We are having an issue where one of our hard dependencies requires pandoc-citeproc as a system dependency but it is superseded by citeproc, so our GitHub Actions fail intermittently. See an example. We have been discussing it in https://github.com/epiforecasts/EpiNow2/issues/1035 and it seems one potential solution would be to fix it from your end.

Could you advise on this? Thanks.

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