error while on network drive

[gadepallivs]

I have a folder that is setup with packrat. When I try to install packages using pak::pkg_install("stringi"). I get this error

Error in read.dcf(file.path(path, "DESCRIPTION")) : 
  cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In read.dcf(file.path(path, "DESCRIPTION")) :
  cannot open compressed file 'P:/working folder/projects/rshiny_projects/shiny_app-working/code/packrat/lib/x86_64-w64-mingw32/3.5.0/stringi/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'

I deleted all packrat folder and then re-initiated with packrat::init(infer.dependencies = F). Then run pak::pkg_setup

`pak` will create its private package library in
`C:\Users\gade04\AppData\Local\R-pkg\Cache/lib/3.5`. 
It will try to copy packages from your regular library
See `?pak_setup()` for alternatives.
Do you want to continue (Y/n)? Y
Creating private lib in `C:\Users\gade04\AppData\Local\R-pkg\Cache/lib/3.5`...
Created private lib in `C:\Users\gade04\AppData\Local\R-pkg\Cache/lib/3.5`..

Question How can I create private library for the current project inside the project dir rather than in above default path that pak chose. ? Not sure if this is a good practice to create a private library for every project folder I work with ( something like packrat) ?

re-run pak::pkg_install("stringi"). Now, it throws a different error

i Checking for package metadata updates
v All 10 metadata files are current.                                        
√oa Loading session disk cached package metadata                          
v Using cached package metadata                                             
Error in res_add_defaults(entries) : 
  Wrong entry types: `filesize (double, expected integer)`
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘pak’ was built under R version 3.5.3 

I ran this

> pak::pak_sitrep()
* pak version:
- 0.1.2
* Library path:
- C:/Users/gade04/Documents/R/win-library/3.5
- C:/Users/gade04/Documents/R/R-3.5.1/library
* Private library location:
- C:\Users\gade04\AppData\Local\R-pkg\Cache/lib/3.5
* Private library exists.
* Private library is functional

sessioninfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.1        rematch2_2.0.1    xml2_1.2.0        magrittr_1.5     
 [5] hms_0.4.2         progress_1.2.0    rappdirs_0.3.1    uuid_0.1-2       
 [9] R6_2.4.0          rlang_0.3.1       cliapp_0.1.0      fansi_0.4.0      
[13] stringr_1.4.0     tools_3.5.1       pak_0.1.2         pkgcache_1.0.3   
[17] utf8_1.1.4        cli_1.0.1         selectr_0.4-1     withr_2.1.2      
[21] assertthat_0.2.0  digest_0.6.18     tibble_2.1.1      crayon_1.3.4     
[25] curl_3.3          glue_1.3.1        stringi_1.4.3     compiler_3.5.1   
[29] pillar_1.3.1      filelock_1.0.2    prettyunits_1.0.2 pkgconfig_2.0.2

[rogiersbart]

I'm getting the same error here, with current CRAN, current github master, R 3.5.2 and R 3.5.3 ... No clue where this is coming from ...

library(pak)
pkg_install("usethis")
#> i Checking for package metadata updates
#> v Using cached package metadata
#> Error in res_add_defaults(entries): Wrong entry types: `filesize (double, expected integer)`

^{Created on 2019-03-18 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}

Session info

sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 16299)
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_COLLATE=Dutch_Belgium.1252  LC_CTYPE=Dutch_Belgium.1252   
#> [3] LC_MONETARY=Dutch_Belgium.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
#> [5] LC_TIME=Dutch_Belgium.1252    
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> other attached packages:
#> [1] pak_0.1.2.9000
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] cliapp_0.1.0          Rcpp_1.0.1            compiler_3.5.3       
#>  [4] pillar_1.3.1          highr_0.7             base64enc_0.1-3      
#>  [7] prettyunits_1.0.2     tools_3.5.3           progress_1.2.0       
#> [10] pkgbuild_1.0.2        uuid_0.1-2            digest_0.6.18        
#> [13] jsonlite_1.6          evaluate_0.13         tibble_2.1.1         
#> [16] pkgconfig_2.0.2       rlang_0.3.1           cli_1.0.1            
#> [19] filelock_1.0.2        curl_3.3              yaml_2.2.0           
#> [22] xfun_0.5              withr_2.1.2           stringr_1.4.0        
#> [25] knitr_1.22            xml2_1.2.0            desc_1.2.0           
#> [28] hms_0.4.2             rappdirs_0.3.1        rprojroot_1.3-2      
#> [31] glue_1.3.1            R6_2.4.0              processx_3.3.0       
#> [34] fansi_0.4.0           rmarkdown_1.12        callr_3.2.0          
#> [37] selectr_0.4-1         magrittr_1.5          rematch2_2.0.1       
#> [40] backports_1.1.3       pkgdepends_0.0.0.9003 ps_1.3.0             
#> [43] htmltools_0.3.6       assertthat_0.2.0      lpSolve_5.6.13       
#> [46] pkgcache_1.0.3.9001   stringi_1.4.3         crayon_1.3.4