packrat::snapshot() fails
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Description
I'm using a third-party package “WindR" in my R packrat project. I've included the source of the package in local repo. But, when I type packrat::snapshot() in R console, it returns the following error
Error in read.dcf(...) : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In read.dcf(...) :
cannot open compressed file 'D:/PACKRAT_REPO/WindR', probable reason 'Permission denied'
Besides, I'm wondering if there's a way to ignore certain package like this one when calling snapshot? Thanks!
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure from packrat::snapshot() with the local WindR package source and inspect the read.dcf error for D:/PACKRAT_REPO/WindR. Determine whether the snapshot failure and the requested package exclusion are separate cases; done means the behavior is reproducible and the expected handling is covered by an appropriate test or documented outcome.
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- Tech stack
- r
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 1-2 days
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