pkgdown GitHub workflow fails because curl 404 error for lme4 and rlang

[egouldo]

See rstudio/renv#96

[egouldo]

OK can confirm that incorrect URL is recorded in the lock file for these packages!

Likely because I'm using homebrew-installed R, as per tagged issue in description.

renv::upgrade() didn't seem to fix it. So perhaps I'll try reinstall these packages and see if the URLs are fixed, or otherwise I'll manually override them in the lock file by hand.

ap <- available.packages(type = "source")
ap[c("rlang", "lme4"), c("Package", "Version", "Repository")]
#>       Package Version    Repository                            
#> rlang "rlang" "1.1.2"    "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib"
#> lme4  "lme4"  "1.1-35.1" "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib"

^{Created on 2023-11-06 with reprex v2.0.2}

[egouldo]

Potentially also related to rstudio/renv#1717

[egouldo]

Using the GitHub installation was a successful workaround for this issue and the packages were able to be downloaded and installed in the GitHub pkgdown run.

However, now the run is cracking it over igraph:: 6211c09

I'm going to try the same approach for this package, and for any package thereafter that won't install.

[egouldo]

dang... can't install igraph with dev tools locally because compilation is failing.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68248503/failing-to-install-igraph-package-in-r suggests installing binary rather than from source

[egouldo]

Using binary igraph won't work because actually the issue is that required libraries are missing. This is a known issue on ubuntu machines, which the GitHub action is using for the pkgdown build:

• igraph installation error igraph/rigraph#452
• igraph build issue on Ubuntu 16.04 igraph/rigraph#209 (comment) specifically references using GHA with this issue

suggested solution:

sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev

Not quite sure where to run this. I think I need to run it in the GH workflow script before any of the R gh actions.

igraph/rigraph#209 (comment) shows how to set this up in GHA. But, it seems strange that the header install comes after the dependency installation, I can't imagine this is going to work. Also, the binary might need libglpk40, not the dev versions...

- name: igraph-deps
  run: sudo apt-get install -y libglpk40`