R-hub builder error: there is no package called 'rlang'

[DivadNojnarg]

While preparing for a CRAN update, I had an error with devtools::check_rhub():

* installing *source* package 'shinyMobile' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) : 
  there is no package called 'rlang'
Calls: <Anonymous> ... loadNamespace -> withRestarts -> withOneRestart -> doWithOneRestart
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'shinyMobile'
* removing 'C:/Users/USERlJFmSgyduQ/R/shinyMobile'

Full log here

and also this:

* using log directory ‘/home/docker/shinyMobile.Rcheck’
* using R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
* using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
* using session charset: UTF-8
* using option ‘--as-cran’
* checking for file ‘shinyMobile/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* checking extension type ... Package
* this is package ‘shinyMobile’ version ‘0.7.0’
* package encoding: UTF-8
* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... Note_to_CRAN_maintainers
Maintainer: ‘David Granjon <dgranjon@ymail.com>’
* checking package namespace information ... OK
* checking package dependencies ... ERROR
Packages suggested but not available: 'plotly', 'V8', 'golem'

The suggested packages are required for a complete check.
Checking can be attempted without them by setting the environment
variable _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ to a false value.

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.
* DONE
Status: 1 ERROR

Full log here

devtools::check_win_devel() as well as local checking are OK.

Session info

R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS  10.15.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] devtools_2.3.0 usethis_1.6.1 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] rstudioapi_0.11   magrittr_1.5      pkgload_1.0.2    
 [4] R6_2.4.1          rlang_0.4.5       fansi_0.4.1      
 [7] tools_3.4.4       pkgbuild_1.0.7    sessioninfo_1.1.1
[10] cli_2.0.2         withr_2.2.0       ellipsis_0.3.0   
[13] remotes_2.1.1     assertthat_0.2.1  digest_0.6.25    
[16] rprojroot_1.3-2   crayon_1.3.4      processx_3.4.2   
[19] callr_3.4.3       fs_1.4.1          ps_1.3.2         
[22] testthat_2.3.2    memoise_1.1.0     glue_1.4.0       
[25] compiler_3.4.4    desc_1.2.0        backports_1.1.6  
[28] prettyunits_1.1.1 jsonlite_1.6.1   

[gaborcsardi]

The full log is under the link named "log": https://builder.r-hub.io/status/original/shinyMobile_0.7.0.tar.gz-419e621e79b945cc9473a4217ba9202d

This is the error, slightly garbled:

Packages which are only available in source form, and may need
  These will not be installed
  'dplyr' 'purrr' 'tidyr' 'data.table'
  'tibble' 'ellipsis' 'fansi' 'vctrs' 'utf8' 'processx' 'ps' 'curl'
  compilation of C/C++/Fortran: 'Rcpp' 'rlang' 'glue' 'stringi'

CRAN does not currently distribute binaries for R-devel packages, e.g.: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rlang/index.html

They only have binaries for internal use.

[gaborcsardi]

A possible workaround is to set the R_COMPILE_AND_INSTALL_PACKAGES env var to always, using the env_vars argument.

[gaborcsardi]

I just tried and this works for a package with a bunch of dependencies that need compilation:

rhub::check(
  platform="windows-x86_64-devel",
  env_vars=c(R_COMPILE_AND_INSTALL_PACKAGES = "always")
)

[DivadNojnarg]

Perfect! Thanks