Can't install package from Github using Github Actions

[ghost]

I have the following workflow for installing packages with pak and then running a few tests:

I'm having issues with installing private repos within my organization. I tried to overcome this problem in a few ways, but they all failed. I added a github PAT as a secret in the repository, and confirmed the token can access the repositories I am trying to install. I defined the package name in Imports and the "owner/repo" in Remotes, but then I hit this error:

I also directly specified the URL of the package in Imports:

But the above also fails, with a different error:

I have a similar workflow using renv and a PAT that works, so I am not sure if there's a bug in pak that's preventing the package from being installed, or if I am doing something wrong. Any ideas? Also, let me know what other information I can provide that would help with the problem.

[gaborcsardi]

I am afraid that you'll need to create a reproducible example, without that it is very hard to help you.

[ghost]

Thanks for the quick reply. Fair enough, let me debug a bit more here to see if I can find the problem.

[ghost]

@gaborcsardi I am hitting an issue that is easy to replicate and could explain the problems above.

How to replicate:

• Install R 4.1.2
• Install renv
• Create new directory, launch R, and use renv::init(bare = TRUE)
• Restart R
• Install pak with renv::install("pak")
• Confirm that tidyselect is not installed with library(tidyselect)
• Install tidyselect with pak via pak::pkg_install("r-lib/tidyselect"). Install fails due to not being able to install dependencies (see 1st screenshot).
• Install tidyselect with renv via renv::install("r-lib/tidyselect") (see 2nd screenshot).

See the screenshots below.

1. Issue with pak when installing tidyselect:

2. renv is able to install tidyselect:

[gaborcsardi]

Do you still have this issue?

[ghost]

Hey Gabor, it's been a year so I am not sure haha. Let me check again and see if the problem is still there, with the major changes to renv as well I think my issues might have been cleared.