Devtools: difficulty getting Github info

Created on 31 Jan 2016 · 4Comments · Source: r-lib/devtools

I'd love to replace my clunky, organically grown reverse dependency checking machinery with devtools's version ... however, when I try to run revdep_check() on a local copy of the lme4 package I get "Unknown Github repo format" when it tries to run

devtools:::remote_metadata(as.package("lme4"))

to retrieve the dependency information.

I traced this as far as github_remote parse, where x is equal to ssh://[email protected]/lme4/lme4 --
the function is looking for https:// or git:// URLs, and if it can't find them it fails ... maybe ssh:// is an old format ... ?

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bbolker

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For people arriving here trying to track down this error message - I fixed by switching the repo's git remote origin from http to https:

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/jsta/foo.git

jsta on 2 Dec 2016

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OK, I fixed this via git remote set-url origin [email protected]:lme4/lme4.git . Might be worth adding the older format to the list of possible cases, if it isn't just something wonky that happens to work for me?

Feel free to close this (I'll leave it open for now)

bbolker on 31 Jan 2016

Yeah, I think ssh is an older format.

hadley on 2 Jun 2016

For people arriving here trying to track down this error message - I fixed by switching the repo's git remote origin from http to https:

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/jsta/foo.git

jsta on 2 Dec 2016

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