Install from Github Error Loop

[bhive01]

Hi, mentioned on Twitter this morning to @hadley that I was having weird install issues. I can install and work with CRAN, but in case others are affected. I tried to install from Github and it starts some sort of infinite loop of trying to get dtplyr and dplyr. It also insists I have the latest from Github and I don't. If I tell it force = TRUE it does this too.

devtools::install_github("hadley/dplyr")
Downloading GitHub repo hadley/dplyr@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/dplyr/zipball/master
Installing dplyr
Skipping install for github remote, the SHA1 (4b61621c) has not changed since last install.
  Use `force = TRUE` to force installation
Downloading GitHub repo hadley/dtplyr@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/dtplyr/zipball/master
Installing dtplyr
Downloading GitHub repo hadley/dplyr@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/dplyr/zipball/master
Installing dplyr
Skipping install for github remote, the SHA1 (4b61621c) has not changed since last install.
  Use `force = TRUE` to force installation
Downloading GitHub repo hadley/dtplyr@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/dtplyr/zipball/master
Installing dtplyr
Downloading GitHub repo hadley/dplyr@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/dplyr/zipball/master
Installing dplyr
Skipping install for github remote, the SHA1 (4b61621c) has not changed since last install.
  Use `force = TRUE` to force installation
Downloading GitHub repo hadley/dtplyr@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/dtplyr/zipball/master
Installing dtplyr


devtools::session_info()
Session info ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
 system   x86_64, darwin13.4.0        
 ui       AQUA                        
 language (EN)                        
 collate  en_US.UTF-8                 
 tz       America/Los_Angeles         
 date     2016-05-09                  

Packages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 package    * version    date       source                       
 assertthat   0.1        2013-12-06 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 curl         0.9.7      2016-04-10 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 DBI          0.4-1      2016-05-08 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 devtools     1.11.1     2016-04-21 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 digest       0.6.9      2016-01-08 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 dplyr      * 0.4.3      2015-09-01 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 git2r        0.14.0     2016-03-13 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 httr         1.1.0      2016-01-28 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 magrittr     1.5        2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 memoise      1.0.0      2016-01-29 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 purrr      * 0.2.1.9000 2016-05-10 Github (hadley/purrr@2fd93d3)
 R6           2.1.2      2016-01-26 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 Rcpp         0.12.4     2016-03-26 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 rstudioapi   0.5        2016-01-24 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 tidyr      * 0.4.1      2016-02-05 CRAN (R 3.3.0)               
 withr        1.0.1      2016-02-04 CRAN (R 3.3.0)

[hadley]

You need the dev version of dplyr

[bhive01]

If that's a question then no. I don't need the development version. Tell me you're busy with it and I'll try when it's more stable again.
If that's a statement then I honestly thought that's what I was doing. :/

[yutannihilation]

I am facing the same problem!

I've reported the issue on devtools repo: r-lib/devtools#1182
It seems that devtools::install_XXX() cannot resolve circular dependency when two packages depend each other via Remotes

[krlmlr]

The CRAN version of devtools will cause this problem. Does installation work with the dev version of devtools?

[krlmlr]

FWIW, this behavior has been introduced in #1808.

[ljos]

Installation does not work with the dev version of devtools either. I am having the same problem.

[krlmlr]

Thanks. I guess #1808 needs to be reverted after all. I'll submit a PR soon.