Did rlang become 'required' ?

[eddelbuettel]

I noticed in a container that duckdb and DBI alone lead to an error -- rlang is missing.

On my normal machine, loading duckdb also loads rlang. But rlang is only a 'Suggests:' for both duckdb and DBI.

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> packageVersion("duckdb")
[1] ‘1.1.3’
> library(duckdb)
Loading required package: DBI
Loading required namespace: rlang
> 

If rlang gets autoloaded, and if it leads to a failure of instantiation when not present this appears to be more than a Suggests. Currently it is only a Suggests meaning the generated binary package does not depend on it, and the load fails:

$ docker run --rm -ti rocker/r2u:24.04 bash
root@1c98fa4ef0c8:/# Rscript -e 'install.packages("duckdb")' 2>&1 >/dev/null    # only co-installs DBI
root@1c98fa4ef0c8:/# R -q
> library(duckdb)
Loading required package: DBI
Loading required namespace: rlang
Failed with error:  ‘there is no package called ‘rlang’’
> 

PS Once one co-installs rlang all is well but then it should probably be at an Imports: level. A demo is here.

[krlmlr]

Fixed in 76bc023, thanks for the report.