richfitz
yml or yaml
recent versions of Rstudio (0.99.903 or so) warn users that the file extension ought to be .yaml not .yml. This is going to cause problems (as it did for me) because remake expects precisely named filenames.
Perhaps remake could be tweaked to accept both .yml and .yaml endings?
it does work with .yaml, but you have to use the remake_file arg in remake::make and other functions. So
remake::make(remake_file='proper_YAML.yaml')
should work
Alas, the file name of any remake_sources file is baked right in
Unfortunately, this doesn't result in a "no remake_sources file found" sort of error (which perhaps it should?) but rather in a "package X not available for R version X.X.X" error. This is because if there is no file called exactly remake_sources.yml , all missing package names are passed to install.packages(), which naturally checks CRAN.
Not realizing this, I thought everything was working and that there was an error in the off-cran package, not in my file names 😿
ahh, sorry, didn't realize it was more complex than what I was thinking about.
- This should be an easy fix, though the logic is tedious (what do you do if both are found, etc). Perhaps it should also be tweakable from the remake file with something like
package_sources: my_sources.yaml
.2. why on earth is rstudio complaining about that extension? It's perfectly cromulent. Perhaps the embiggened extension is more cromulent, idk
.2. It's a month and a half later, and I just found out that this is a Simpson's reference. I feel cromulent, noble, and embiggened of spirit.
