Error: Failed to install 'covr' from GitHub:

[venkatesh588]

What happened?

Hi Team,

We are using in Gihub data residency account which is ghe.com. When we try to use this action, this action is expecting the token for the Gihub.com account and it's not working with GHE.com github token. We are getting 401 error message while downloading the dependency. Please find the below error message.

For re-producing the issue, please use github data residency account and use this action, token created in the github GHE account.

Run insightsengineering/thevalidatoR@v2 with: report_pkg_dir: ./tests/packages/abind report_template_path: ./template.qmd no_cache: false cache_version: v1 disable_install_dev_deps: false env: GITHUB_PAT: *** Run echo "R_VERSION=$(R --version | head -1 | awk '{print $3}')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT echo "R_VERSION=$(R --version | head -1 | awk '{print $3}')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0} env: GITHUB_PAT: *** Run mkdir -p ${RUNNER_TEMP}/Library mkdir -p ${RUNNER_TEMP}/Library echo ".libPaths(c('${RUNNER_TEMP}/Library', .libPaths()))" > ~/.Rprofile cat ~/.Rprofile shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0} env: GITHUB_PAT: *** .libPaths(c('/home/docker/actions-runner/_work/_temp/Library', .libPaths())) Run actions/cache@v4 with: path: /home/runner/work/_temp/Library key: v1-Linux-4.4.0- restore-keys: v1-Linux-4.4.0 enableCrossOsArchive: false fail-on-cache-miss: false lookup-only: false save-always: false env: GITHUB_PAT: *** Cache not found for input keys: v1-Linux-4.4.0-, v1-Linux-4.4.0 Run ${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/dependencies.R ${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/dependencies.R [ ! -f "./template.qmd" ] && cp ${GITHUB_ACTION_PATH}/template.qmd . || echo "./template.qmd already exists" MIN_QUARTO_VERSION="1.5.29" if [[ "$(echo -e "$(quarto --version)\n${MIN_QUARTO_VERSION}" | sort -V | head -1)" == "${MIN_QUARTO_VERSION}" ]]; then echo "✅ Quarto CLI version sufficient (>= ${MIN_QUARTO_VERSION})" echo "Quarto CLI version: $(quarto --version)" else echo "❌ Quarto CLI version insufficient (< ${MIN_QUARTO_VERSION})" apt-get update apt-get install -qy wget jq # Install newer version of Quarto CLI. # This gets the latest version number (v1.5 up to v1.9) of Quarto from GitHub releases. # It assumes that such version number (v1.5 up to v1.9) exists within the last 100 released Quarto versions. export QUARTO_VERSION="$(curl -L -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json"
-H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28"
https://api.github.com/repos/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases?per_page=100
2>/dev/null |
jq -r 'map(select(.tag_name | test("^v1.[5-9]"))) | .[0].name[1:]')" echo "Downloading and installing latest Quarto CLI version ${QUARTO_VERSION}" wget https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v${QUARTO_VERSION}/quarto-${QUARTO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.deb dpkg -i quarto-${QUARTO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.deb echo "New Quarto CLI version: $(quarto --version)" fi shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0} env: GITHUB_PAT: *** Using github PAT from envvar GITHUB_PAT. Use gitcreds::gitcreds_set() and unset GITHUB_PAT in .Renviron (or elsewhere) if you want to use the more secure git credential store instead. Error: Failed to install 'covr' from GitHub: HTTP error 401. Bad credentials

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Execution halted Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

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[epijim]

Hey @venkatesh588 - as ghe.com and github.com are different platforms, it might be expected the tokens are not interchangeable?

The docs seem to imply there is no connection

Have you tried using a github.com token?

[venkatesh588]

Hi @epijim ,

Yes tried using the github.com token and it works fine without any issue.

Regards. Venkatesh