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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the report with pak::pkg_install() using the package list shown, and inspect the dependency-resolution error output. The change is complete when an already reported package error is not followed by additional “dependency conflict” lines, while Type .Last.error still provides more details.

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Description

bug
❯ pak::pkg_install(c("xxxxx", sample(pkgcache::parse_installed()$Package, 10)))
Error:
! error in pak subprocess
Caused by error:
! Could not solve package dependencies:
* xxxxx: Can't find package called xxxxx.
* triebeard: dependency conflict
* profvis: dependency conflict
* asciicast: dependency conflict
* deldir: dependency conflict
* hardhat: dependency conflict
* stars: dependency conflict
* styler: dependency conflict
* downlit: dependency conflict
Type .Last.error to see the more details.

Avoid printing 'dependency conflict', if at least one error was already reported.

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C
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