Error when creating repo

[pawelru]

minicran_path <- tempfile()
dir.create(minicran_path)
miniCRAN::makeRepo(pkgs = NULL, path = minicran_path, type = c("source", .Platform$pkgType))
#> Created new folder: /var/folders/px/_50zh3ns2nd4pmd727cmwlc00000gn/T//RtmpndV3gi/filee86a4ef89ac8/src/contrib
#> Created new folder: /var/folders/px/_50zh3ns2nd4pmd727cmwlc00000gn/T//RtmpndV3gi/filee86a4ef89ac8/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.3
#> Warning in read.dcf(file = tmpf): cannot open compressed file
#> '//var/folders/px/_50zh3ns2nd4pmd727cmwlc00000gn/T//RtmpWMiVMe/filee2b76d663999/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.3/PACKAGES',
#> probable reason 'No such file or directory'
#> Error in read.dcf(file = tmpf): cannot open the connection

sessionInfo()
#> R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)
#> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
#> Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.3
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib 
#> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.11.0
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
#> 
#> time zone: Europe/Zurich
#> tzcode source: internal
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] vctrs_0.6.5       httr_1.4.7        cli_3.6.2         knitr_1.46       
#>  [5] rlang_1.1.3       xfun_0.43         purrr_1.0.2       styler_1.10.3    
#>  [9] assertthat_0.2.1  glue_1.7.0        htmltools_0.5.8.1 rmarkdown_2.26   
#> [13] R.cache_0.16.0    evaluate_0.23     fastmap_1.1.1     yaml_2.3.8       
#> [17] lifecycle_1.0.4   compiler_4.3.2    igraph_2.0.1.1    fs_1.6.3         
#> [21] pkgconfig_2.0.3   R.oo_1.26.0       R.utils_2.12.3    digest_0.6.35    
#> [25] R6_2.5.1          reprex_2.1.0      magrittr_2.0.3    miniCRAN_0.3.0   
#> [29] R.methodsS3_1.8.2 tools_4.3.2       withr_3.0.0

^{Created on 2024-04-18 with reprex v2.1.0}

[andrie]

What do you expect to happen when pkgs = NULL ?
Add a pkgs argument.

[pawelru]

My idea is to create empty repo and then add packages one by one afterwards. Adding a dummy package makes it work. Thank you for a good hint! I'm closing this