R packages: occasionally select dependencies fail to be found, despite being installed [SOLVED, please close]

[barracuda156]

UPD. Apparently, the issue was that I had to keep R at 4.2.3 due to this: #67298 But R PG was updated to have 4.3.0.

Reverting R PG to 4.2.3 seems to fix everything.

_ Examples:

--->  Testing R-markovmix
* using log directory ‘/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_PPCRosettaPorts_R_R-markovmix/R-markovmix/work/markovmix/markovmix.Rcheck’
* using R version 4.2.3 (2023-03-15)
* using platform: powerpc-apple-darwin10.8.0 (32-bit)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* checking for file ‘markovmix/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* this is package ‘markovmix’ version ‘0.1.0’
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... ERROR
Package suggested but not available: ‘ggplot2’

The suggested packages are required for a complete check.
Checking can be attempted without them by setting the environment
variable _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to a false value.

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.
* DONE

Status: 1 ERROR

Also: ​https://github.com/husson/FactoMineR/issues/19 ​https://github.com/michaelhallquist/MplusAutomation/issues/186 I recall at least one more case with another package.

What goes wrong?

[barracuda156]

Looks like it is rather a package which is not found gets broken is some way rather than the other way round. Opened an issue with ggplot2, since its 3.4.2 is faulty: ​https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues/5282

[barracuda156]

Error is for sure on the side of packages which are not found. Like:

> library(fastDummies)
Error in library(fastDummies) : there is no package called ‘fastDummies’

Wonder what goes wrong.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I don't know anything about R, sorry.

[barracuda156]

In 8e1c254a76374311fdae4d183d1b687abc521337/macports-ports (master):

R PG: fix port phases following Macports update to 2.9.0

Fixes: #69211
Fixes: #67282
Closes: #67229
Closes: #67299