From a301587f0c4c4f125298f71d8abcecacb8024c62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Peters <80283343+alexpeters1208@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 15:20:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: R CI docsite issue (#5729)

---
 R/build.gradle | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/R/build.gradle b/R/build.gradle
index 85583260473..68d1b704599 100644
--- a/R/build.gradle
+++ b/R/build.gradle
@@ -179,7 +179,10 @@ def rClientSite = Docker.registerDockerTask(project, 'rClientSite') {
         runCommand("mkdir -p ${prefix}/src/rdeephaven/docs")
         runCommand('''echo "status = tryCatch(" \
                            "   {" \
-                           "      install.packages('pkgdown', repos='https://cran.r-project.org'); " \
+                           "      install.packages('devtools'); " \
+                           "      require(devtools); " \
+                           "      remove.packages('pkgdown'); " \
+                           "      devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.0', repos='https://cran.r-project.org'); " \
                            "      0" \
                            "   }," \
                            "  error=function(e) 1," \