unable to install from github using remotes

[tdhock]

What happens?

Looks like there is an error when parsing the DESCRIPTION, when attempting to remotes::install_github. I expected this should be possible, as it is mentioned in the README.

To Reproduce

(emacs1) th798@cn65:~/genomic-ml/data.table-revdeps(master)$ R -e 'remotes::install_github("igraph/rigraph")'

R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16) -- "Beagle Scouts"
Copyright (C) 2023 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
...
> remotes::install_github("igraph/rigraph")
Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from GitHub:
  Line starting 'SystemR ...' is malformed!
Execution halted

Note that cloning and then doing R CMD install works fine:

(emacs1) th798@cn65:~/R$ git clone https://github.com/igraph/rigraph
Cloning into 'rigraph'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 149493, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (39873/39873), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4355/4355), done.
remote: Total 149493 (delta 36467), reused 38412 (delta 35225), pack-reused 109\
620
Receiving objects: 100% (149493/149493), 392.61 MiB | 41.04 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (129610/129610), done.
Updating files: 100% (2380/2380), done.
(emacs1) th798@cn65:~/R$ R CMD INSTALL rigraph/
Loading required namespace: BiocManager
* installing to library '/projects/genomic-ml/lib64/R/library'
* installing *source* package 'igraph' ...
...
** checking absolute paths in shared objects and dynamic libraries
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
Loading required namespace: BiocManager
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (igraph)

[maelle]

Have you tried using pak @tdhock? pak::pak("igraph/rigraph") worked for me. I am exploring an unrelated failure with remotes.

I ran desc::desc_normalize() which showed no problem with the DESCRIPTION file.

[maelle]

I cannot reproduce the problem with remotes, remotes::install_github() worked for me.

However, I'll update the README to have it mention pak instead of devtools.

[krlmlr]

Closing for now, please file a new issue if the problem persists.

[krlmlr]

igraph 2.0.2 is on CRAN now, too.

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