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@richfitz really enjoying your scripts here, which are rather nicer than what I have in ropensci/packages. It would be nice if the scripts attempted to install the dependencies if they were not available. This wouldn't be fail-safe of course (e.g. with any non-CRAN hosted dependencies, but of course install_github doesn't handle that either), but it would facilitate those cases where you're installing from the Github page of some third-party package that decides to tack on an additional dependency that isn't available in the local build system.

I was just calling install_github before attempting to build the package for this reason, but clearly that's an inefficient hack since it pulls down the repos again. Curious if you had a better solution in mind that would accomplish the same thing.

e.g. script fails to install hadley/reshape because the package name is reshape2.

Trying to puzzle out the best way to automate drat builds over CI. Perhaps something like a nightly build on circle CI would work.

Yihui takes a somewhat different route with xran and has packages build and update their repo versions individually as part of their travis checks, but this means adding encrypted credentials to every travis file which is a bit of a pain.

Of course sometimes it's nice that the drat repo contains a more intentionally-released/stable version.

Drat builds are now failing. First fail is with rrqueue, but there will likely be more once we progress further through the list

Error in call_system(file.path(R.home("bin"), "R"), c("--vanilla", "CMD",  :
  Running command:
  '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --vanilla CMD build rrqueue
had status 1
Program output:
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* checking for file ‘rrqueue/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* preparing ‘rrqueue’:
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to build vignettes
      -----------------------------------
ERROR: dependencies ‘RedisAPI’, ‘RedisHeartbeat’ are not available for package ‘rrqueue’
* removing ‘/private/var/folders/_q/vq6sxzjx64b5yb1_zjbh7xzm0000gp/T/Rtmp6de2qb/Rinsteb0e438d8928/rrqueue’
      -----------------------------------
ERROR: package installation failed

@richfitz has been developing the rrqueue idea further elsewhere at mrc-ide/rrq so probably best to just remove from here?