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• Support zstd-compressed package archives: CRAN's current macOS binaries fail with "unknown archive type"

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#485 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026

• Vendored git-auth.R will need a re-vendor if gitcreds renames the cache env var

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#484 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2026

• `git::` remote installs silently deliver Git LFS pointer files instead of the real file content, with no error or warning

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#483 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026

• Allow trailing slash(es) in urls?

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#477 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2026

• pkgdepends (and pak) fail when GitHub packages depend on each other and different versions are requested

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#471 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2026

• test-coverage workflow fails on fork PRs: fake GitHub server returns HTTP 401 in github-tools tests

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#467 · Opened Jun 4, 2026

• Bug: Cached zip treated as valid but yields empty archive on install

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#465 · Opened Jun 3, 2026

• Handle R version requirements expressed with svn revision numbers

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#463 · Opened May 5, 2026

• `scan_deps()` seems to fail when the input path is a file (not folder)

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#460 · Opened Apr 8, 2026

• `install_extracted_binary()` fails on Posit Workbench

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#451 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 25, 2025

• `pak::pkg_install(character())` triggers internal error

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#449 · Opened Jun 27, 2025

• Option to "inject" extra headers in HTTP requests

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#448 · Opened Jun 4, 2025

• Local installs vs. GH dependencies

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#441 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2025

• "internal error in pkgdepends"

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#440 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2025

• Dependency scanning: ability to declare non-cran dependency

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#439 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 20, 2025

• progress bar

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#432 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• make if works on a vector of files

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#431 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• warning about many files?

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#429 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• Should we pick up renv's options and env vars? IDK.

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#428 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• `renv.config.dependencies.limit` ?

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#427 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• Report errors?

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#426 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• hard coded ignores:

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#425 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• `.renvignore`

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#424 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• `.gitignore`

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#423 · Opened Jan 7, 2025

• Setting command line arguments for package installation

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#394 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 16, 2024

• ! Error in dependency solver, cannot solve installation.

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#393 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 14, 2024

• Scan R etc. code for package dependencies

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#390 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 22, 2024

• error about install parallel

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#389 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 22, 2024

• Error message in case of circular dependencies

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#387 · Opened Oct 7, 2024

• RHEL autodetection needs more work

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#385 · Opened Sep 19, 2024

• Automatically `normalizePath()` for local type of references

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#378 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2024

• `sysreqs_install_plan` outputs partial dependency list for some platforms (with no warning)

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#377 · Opened Aug 13, 2024

• Can't find dependencies for base packages

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#374 · Opened Jul 25, 2024

• Use `testthat::with_mock()` instead of mockery

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#373 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2024

• new feature request: `deparse_pkg_ref()`

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#371 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 26, 2024

• options(pkg.use_bioconductor = FALSE) and new_pkg_deps

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#369 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 13, 2024

• Source CRAN dependencies don't ignore MASS

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#368 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2024

• binary packages install are failing when download method gets source

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#367 · Opened Jun 3, 2024

• Warning in cond$parent: partial match of 'parent' to 'parents'

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#365 · Opened May 17, 2024

• Solver fails with Config/Needs/... indirect dependency configuration

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#351 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2024

• pkgdepends fails to download from private git url, despite successfully resolving dependencies

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#349 · Opened Nov 17, 2023

• Add alt-text to pictures, plots, etc; see https://posit.co/blog/knitr-fig-alt/ for examples

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#347 · Opened Nov 3, 2023

• `usethis::use_standalone("r-lib/rlang", "types-check")` instead of home grown argument checkers;

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#346 · Opened Nov 3, 2023

• Use cli errors or file an issue if you don't have time to do it now

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#345 · Opened Nov 3, 2023

• Output too verbose

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#340 · Opened Sep 25, 2023

• Issue with versioned package

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#335 · Opened Sep 13, 2023

• Internal error in pkgdepends

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#330 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2023

• Turn off sysreqs if conda is active

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#329 · Opened Aug 30, 2023

• Fix typo

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#327 · Opened Aug 2, 2023

• Have a way to update only packages that have binaries available.

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  r-lib/pkgdepends#324 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2023