Devin Pastoor

the biggest concern I have with this, which maybe shouldn't be part of pkgr's responsibility, is the goal around being as declarative as possible and consistent as possible. So, for...

From the error it's saying it had a problem with the package database this likely means something went sideways during the initial query and now you have a corrupted DB...

I am unable to reproduce this on both linux and mac  Lets start on the workarounds: First one is here: https://github.com/metrumresearchgroup/pkgr/blob/c3d9a7d70b02a4ee59c82ecf10def7f162f9a5f4/cran/repodb.go#L110 I would be curious to see if you...

This isn't "unintuitive" per say - its a bug! It should be pkg --> repo --> defaults for each setting

we might just need to do a cascading apply for each that overwrites. Eg first set for each package the defaults. Then apply the repo customizations, then package customizations. That...

Thanks for the request Bill. The answer is both yes and no. Yes as you could (today) add any other cranlike repo below your repo's being pointed at and it...

@mattfidler yes cran plays nice with bioconductor. I actually don't even think I can't find off the top of my head, but the rstudio team is actively discussing this on...

Hey Bill, Sorry for the delay. The simple answer, is for now there is nothing to guarantee that things like cmdstanr are present, that is left as an exercise to...

Thanks Bill, so its not a change in pkgr its definitely the instability of the microsoft cran snapshot. It's not a 'bug', its just a very bad error message -...

pretty sure this is caused by https://github.com/metrumresearchgroup/pkgr/blob/master/configlib/config.go#L147 windows line endings are likely the culprit. The proper implementation should be to use a bufio.Scanner() to go through line by line and...