remotes loads packages in standalone mode

[gaborcsardi]

I would think that it shouldn't.

> loadedNamespaces()
[1] "compiler"  "graphics"  "utils"     "grDevices" "stats"     "datasets"
[7] "methods"   "base"
> Sys.getenv("R_REMOTES_STANDALONE")
[1] "true"
> remotes::install_github("r-lib/testthat", update = FALSE)
Using bundled GitHub PAT. Please add your own PAT to the env var `GITHUB_PAT`
Downloading GitHub repo r-lib/testthat@HEAD
These packages have more recent versions available.
It is recommended to update all of them.
Which would you like to update?

 1: All
 2: CRAN packages only
 3: None
 4: rlang     (0.4.7        -> 0.4.8       ) [CRAN]
 5: tibble    (3.0.3        -> 3.0.4       ) [CRAN]
 6: backports (1.1.9        -> 1.1.10      ) [CRAN]
 7: diffobj   (0.3.0        -> 0.3.2       ) [CRAN]
 8: waldo     (5e5b7dc30... -> 63bbe3ff7...) [GitHub]
 9: jsonlite  (1.7.0        -> 1.7.1       ) [CRAN]
10: brio      (1.0.0        -> 1.1.0       ) [CRAN]

Enter one or more numbers, or an empty line to skip updates:3
Installing 2 packages: digest, vctrs
Installing packages into 'C:/Users/csard/R/win-library/4.0'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)

  There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
       binary source needs_compilation
digest 0.6.25 0.6.26              TRUE

Do you want to install from sources the package which needs compilation? (Yes/no/cancel) no
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/digest_0.6.25.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 244703 bytes (238 KB)
downloaded 238 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/vctrs_0.3.4.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1189974 bytes (1.1 MB)
downloaded 1.1 MB

package 'digest' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error: Failed to install 'testthat' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) cannot remove prior installation of package 'digest'
> loadedNamespaces()
 [1] "processx"    "compiler"    "assertthat"  "R6"          "cli"
 [6] "graphics"    "prettyunits" "tools"       "withr"       "glue"
[11] "utils"       "grDevices"   "crayon"      "remotes"     "stats"
[16] "fansi"       "datasets"    "callr"       "methods"     "ps"
[21] "pkgbuild"    "base"

[jimhester]

Looks like we are missing a !is_standalone() check in this conditional

remotes/R/install.R

Line 6 in 5a546ad

if (has_package("pkgbuild")) {