Select specific versions for CRAN packages

[kevinushey]

For R packages that need to be installed from the CRAN archive. E.g. https://github.com/r-lib/pak/blob/c85118b565dc9be753291d9b24c59f3f82b4c320/R/package.R#L26-L30

[hadley]

Looks like it needs to be copied over from https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends/blob/359d94554c70502d21861b9af70fbe95cc5f91ae/R/remotes.R#L47-L50

[gaborcsardi]

Well, you can't currently. This was supported before, and the parser sill parses it, but I temporarily removed it when re-organizing the internals. So it is not just documentation, I'll need to add it back.

[kenahoo]

@gaborcsardi are you saying specific versions (or version ranges) can't be used with pak anymore? That seems like a pretty big deal since solving version dependencies is supposed to be one of the primary advantages of pak. Or has this already been added back and this ticket just needs to be updated?

[willgearty]

Any chance this will be reintroduced in pak anytime soon @gaborcsardi?

[ColinFay]

👍 this, that would be an awesome feature

[gaborcsardi]

Until this is implemented, you can use cran/package@version which will install version from https://github.com/cran/. E.g.: cran/[email protected].