Error: failed to retrieve package 'sf@1.0-14'

[skwde]

I already asked this over at sf, see r-spatial/sf#2588, but it was closed with being a problem of renv. So the same issue again here:

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Error: failed to retrieve package 'sf@1.0-14'

I don't know anything about R packaging, so the output is confusing to me....
It says sf is downloaded but later fails that it cannot retrieve the package?

> renv::install('sf@1.0-14', type='source')
# Downloading packages -------------------------------------------------------
- Downloading sf from Repository ...            OK [3.4 Mb in 0.62s]
- Downloading classInt from CRAN ...            OK [432.8 Kb in 0.54s]
- Downloading e1071 from CRAN ...               OK [308.7 Kb in 0.56s]
- Downloading class from CRAN ...               OK [21.7 Kb in 0.54s]
Warning: failed to find source for 'sf 1.0-14' in package repositories
Error: failed to retrieve package 'sf@1.0-14'
Traceback (most recent calls last):
7: renv::install("sf@1.0-14", rebuild = TRUE, type = "source")
6: retrieve(packages)
5: handler(package, renv_retrieve_impl(package))
4: renv_retrieve_impl(package)
3: renv_retrieve_repos(record)
2: stopf("failed to retrieve package '%s'", renv_record_format_remote(record))
1: stop(sprintf(fmt, ...), call. = call.)

I also tried

renv::install("sf@1.0-14", type = "source", repos = "https://cran.r-project.org")

because in the renv.lock I see

    "Repositories": [
      {
        "Name": "CRAN",
        "URL": "https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/latest"
      }
    ]

but it fails with the same error.
I checked https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/sf/ for sf_1.0-14.tar.gz which exists.

So does this mean that sf_1.0-14.tar.gz is incomplete?

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I tried using pak backend where the error indicated that MASS was missing.
Retrying the renv only (not using the pak backend) install via

renv::install('MASS@7.3-60.0.1') # as required by renv.lock

and then retrying

renv::install('sf@1.0-14', type='source')

works as expected (up to renv::install not respecting renv.lock where I opened a separate issue #2232)

[kevinushey]

I'm not able to reproduce with the current development version of renv -- perhaps this has since been resolved?

[kevinushey]

We've fixed a bug on main where repository URLs from the lockfile could have /src/contrib appended twice (producing URLs like .../src/contrib/src/contrib/PACKAGES), which could cause package retrieval failures like this. Could you try installing the development version and see if the issue persists?

install.packages("rstudio/renv", repos = "https://r-universe.dev")