Installation error with latest (1.7.2) in R 4.0.1: ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package ‘tidySingleCellExperiment’

[mattgalbraith]

devtools::install_github("stemangiola/tidySingleCellExperiment")
Downloading GitHub repo stemangiola/tidySingleCellExperiment@HEAD
✔ checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpKpe7AU/remotes4c012bf2b/stemangiola-tidySingleCellExperiment-27335c1/DESCRIPTION’ (502ms)
─ preparing ‘tidySingleCellExperiment’:
✔ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
─ installing the package to process help pages
-----------------------------------
─ installing source package ‘tidySingleCellExperiment’ ...
** using staged installation
** R
Error in parse(outFile) :
/tmp/Rtmp2rFGO3/Rbuild4c363d10ffec/tidySingleCellExperiment/R/print_method.R:39:27: unexpected '>'
38:
39: number_of_features = x |>
^
ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package ‘tidySingleCellExperiment’
─ removing ‘/tmp/Rtmp2rFGO3/Rinst4c364825a588/tidySingleCellExperiment’
-----------------------------------
ERROR: package installation failed
Error: Failed to install 'tidySingleCellExperiment' from GitHub:
! System command 'R' failed

[mattgalbraith]

Installing older version works:
devtools::install_github("stemangiola/[email protected]")
Downloading GitHub repo stemangiola/[email protected]
✔ checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpKpe7AU/remotes4c015fda7b/stemangiola-tidySingleCellExperiment-9ea3777/DESCRIPTION’ (515ms)
─ preparing ‘tidySingleCellExperiment’:
✔ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
─ installing the package to process help pages
─ checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts (53.5s)
─ checking for empty or unneeded directories
─ building ‘tidySingleCellExperiment_1.3.2.tar.gz’

• installing source package ‘tidySingleCellExperiment’ ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** data
  *** moving datasets to lazyload DB
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  ** help
  *** installing help indices
  *** copying figures
  ** building package indices
  ** installing vignettes
  ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
  ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
  ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
• DONE (tidySingleCellExperiment)

[mblue9]

Thanks for the error report @mattgalbraith, I've submitted a PR here to fix that. The R version needs to be >=4.1 for tidySingleCellExperiment v1.7.2 as it makes use of the base R pipe |> introduced R 4.1.