Testthat: ERROR: dependency ‘cli’ is not available for package ‘testthat’

[kimyen]

I am running a build that install testthat, but always failed for Ubuntu & R version 3.4:

Error : object ‘col_align’ is not exported by 'namespace:crayon'
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘cli’
* removing ‘/usr/local/R/R-3.4.0/lib/R/library/cli’
ERROR: dependency ‘cli’ is not available for package ‘testthat’
* removing ‘/usr/local/R/R-3.4.0/lib/R/library/testthat’

[gaborcsardi]

You need to update the crayon package.

[kimyen]

Hello @gaborcsardi,

Thank you for a quick response!
My package does not "directly" depends on crayon package. I would like to only add the direct dependencies to my build script if possible. Does testthat depends on a newer version of crayon?

[czeildi]

I had the same issue with crayon 1.3.2 but after updating it to 1.3.4 testing works fine. I believe the testthat package description file should contain
crayon (>= 1.3.4) to force an update of crayon.

[jimhester]

Closed by #696