Unable to retrieve package records although package records seem to be available
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Description
I'm running into the following issue with packrat::snapshot() :
Error: Unable to retrieve package records for the following packages:
- 'stringr'
packrat:::getPackageRecords("stringr"), however, successfully reports package records for stringr. In addition to CRAN, I'm using an internal package repository which contains multiple versions of archived packages (e.g. stringr 1.1.0). So stringr 1.1.0 is available and is correctly reported by available.packages().
I'm using packrat 0.4.8-57 installed directly from github.
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Start by reproducing the failure with packrat::snapshot() and compare it with packrat:::getPackageRecords("stringr") and available.packages(). Trace how snapshot handles the archived stringr 1.1.0 from the internal repository; done means snapshot retrieves the package records successfully for this repository setup.
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- Bug
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