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Can't find dependencies for base packages

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported pak::pkg_deps("utils") call and inspect the pkgplan_solve dependency-solver path in pkgdepends. Determine why the base package cannot be resolved; done when the command resolves its dependencies or produces an appropriate diagnostic, with regression coverage for this case.

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Description

bug
pak::pkg_deps("utils")
#> ℹ Loading metadata database
#> ✔ Loading metadata database ... done
#> 
#> Error: ! error in pak subprocess
#> Caused by error in `pkgplan_solve(self, private, match.arg(policy))`:
#> ! Error in dependency solver, cannot solve installation.
#> ℹ Solver status: -1.
#> ℹ This is an internal error in pkgdepends, please report an issue at
#>   <https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends/issues>.

Created on 2024-07-25 with reprex v2.1.0

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