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Description
Issue linked to https://github.com/jbkunst/highcharter/issues/429. When running packrat::init(), all packages get installed fine (even some installed with devtools::install_github), with the exception of the highcharter package. Some key facts below:
packrat::init()works if highcharter is installed either from CRAN, or from source (CRAN or github).- It does not work if installing directly from github (ie.
devtools::install_github('jbkunst/highcharter'). - This bug is NOT present in version 0.4.8-1, but is present in the current version. I've confirmed this by running
packrat::init()using both 0.4.8-1 and 0.4.9-2 and getting the error only when running it under 0.4.9-2.
Error in read.dcf(...) :
Found continuation line starting ' shortcut functio ...' at begin of record.
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure with packrat::init() while installing highcharter directly from GitHub, comparing versions 0.4.8-1 and 0.4.9-2. Start from the read.dcf continuation-line error and trace the package metadata being parsed; done means GitHub installation completes through packrat::init() without that error.
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- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
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- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- 42/100