prediction package needs github install

[AaronRendahl]

When installing github_pkgs, I got an error with the prediction package

> github_pkgs <- c("leeper/margins", "fsolt/dotwhisker")
> for (p in github_pkgs) remotes::install_github(p)
Downloading GitHub repo leeper/margins@HEAD
Installing 1 packages: prediction
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-x86_64/contrib/4.4/prediction_0.3.14.tgz'
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) : 
  cannot open URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-x86_64/contrib/4.4/prediction_0.3.14.tgz'

Adding it to the list of github_pkgs succeeds

github_pkgs <- c("leeper/prediction", "leeper/margins", "fsolt/dotwhisker")

[bbolker]

Hmm, that's odd. I don't see any version of prediction at https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/big-sur-x86_64/contrib/4.4/. I assume that's because it was archived, and was restored recently (although the CRAN date is 2024-04-24, the CRAN MacOS binaries still haven't been rebuilt ...)

This also depends on how install_github() is looking for dependencies, i.e. whether it is using type="binary" (or "mac.binary") or allowing type = "both"; in the latter case I would think it ought to fall back to installing from source. But who knows ...

thanks!

[AaronRendahl]

Huh, who knows indeed. Thanks for looking into this!