arkdb requires R (>= 3.5.0)

[spkaluzny]

arkdb (Version 0.0.2) cannot be installed from source in R-3.4.4 under Linux, it requires the utils::askYesNo function which was added to R-3.5.0.

version$version.string
#> [1] "R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)"
install.packages("arkdb")
#> Installing package into ‘/home/R/site-library_R-3.4’
#> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
#> trying URL 'http://erratic/cran/src/contrib/arkdb_0.0.2.tar.gz'
#> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 27979 bytes (27 KB)
#> ==================================================
#> downloaded 27 KB
#>
#> * installing *source* package ‘arkdb’ ...
#> ** package ‘arkdb’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
#> ** R
#> ** inst
#> ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
#> Error : object ‘askYesNo’ is not exported by 'namespace:utils'
#> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘arkdb’
#> * removing ‘/home/R/site-library_R-3.4/arkdb’

[cboettig]

Thanks for the note, I hadn't realized it was so new. I'll leave this open as it may be worth just hand-coding this simple behavior in order to remove that dependency...

[cboettig]

Fixed to be backwards compatible. release coming soon, thanks again for reporting this