Error: invalid version specification ‘6003’

[JohnCoene]

I originally opened an issue on testthat: r-lib/testthat#1597
This is where I first encountered the issue.

Going through the traceback it seems to be caused by:

cli/R/ansi-hyperlink.R

Line 82 in 476cf06

if (nzchar(VTE_VERSION <- Sys.getenv("VTE_VERSION"))) {

On my machine:

 Sys.getenv("VTE_VERSION")
#> "6003"

package_version("6003")
#> Error: invalid version specification ‘6003’

It throws this error: https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/cd17e8a41e33186af6aee0f17b4e558540ba8e5c/src/library/base/R/version.R#L51

R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10) -- "One Push-Up"
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

r$> sessioninfo::session_info()                                                                       
─ Session info ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value
 version  R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10)
 os       Linux Mint 20.3
 system   x86_64, linux-gnu
 ui       X11
 language en_US
 collate  en_US.UTF-8
 ctype    en_US.UTF-8
 tz       Europe/Zurich
 date     2022-03-30
 pandoc   2.5 @ /usr/bin/pandoc

─ Packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package     * version    date (UTC) lib source
 cli           3.2.0      2022-02-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.1.2)
 sessioninfo   1.2.2.9000 2022-03-30 [1] Github (r-lib/sessioninfo@27965c2)

 [1] /home/john/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1
 [2] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
 [3] /usr/lib/R/site-library
 [4] /usr/lib/R/library

[trevorld]

FYI: setting options(cli.hyperlink=FALSE) got devtools::test() working again for me

[MichaelChirico]

Is VTE_VERSION referring to the VteTerminal? https://developer-old.gnome.org/vte/unstable/VteTerminal.html

[MichaelChirico]

OK, based on this:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject/-/issues/214

and on my system:

echo $VTE_VERSION
# 5202

and

python
import gi
gi.require_version("Vte", "2.91")
from gi.repository import Vte

print(f"{ Vte.get_major_version() }.{ Vte.get_minor_version() }.{ Vte.get_micro_version() }")
# 0.52.2

I feel confident we can check for \d{4} and treat it as f"{minor}{micro}". Would be even better if someone could find documentation of this so we can know what would happen if major > 0... but I think we have enough for a PR for now.

[reedacartwright]

I'm running cli version 3.2.0.9000 downloaded from github, and I get an invalid version specification error:

Error: invalid version specification ‘0.68’

On my system VTE_VERSION = 6800. And when 68.0 is encoded as a string in package_version() the .0 gets dropped. I haven't tested it, but I believe that either of the following pieces of code will work:

# Option 1
VTE_VERSION <- sprintf("%0.2f", as.numeric(VTE_VERSION) / 100)
VTE_VERSION <- package_version(list(major = 0, minor = VTE_VERSION))

# Option 2
VTE_VERSION <- sub("(\d\d)(\d\d)", "0.\1.\2", VTE_VERSION)
VTE_VERSION <- package_version(VTE_VERSION)

[gaborcsardi]

@reedacartwright Thanks! You can set VTE_VERSION in your .Renviron to something sensible as a workaround, until we fix this.

[MichaelChirico]

Great catch, thanks! Fixed again in #452