Cannot import cmdstanr in my package

[marouenbg]

Describe the bug
I am using cmdstanr in my R package (called netZooR) as a dependency and I added in my DESCRIPTION file as follows:
Remotes:
stan-dev/cmdstanr,

However, I get this error "Error in loadNamespace(x) : there is no package called ‘cmdstanr’"
I also have 2 other packages in my remotes, and those work perfectly fine and are able to load.

To Reproduce
devtools::install_github("netZoo/netZooR", build_vignettes = TRUE)
library(netZooR)

Expected behavior
To have cmdstanr install and load as a remote package

Operating system
Ubuntu 22.04

CmdStanR version number
0.9

[jgabry]

Thanks for reporting this. I will try to look into this when I have a chance, but I'm a bit overloaded at the moment. For now, have you tried what brms does? It has cmdstanr in Suggests and instead of the Remotes field it uses Additional_repositories with https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev/ instead of stan-dev/cmdstanr. I think what you did should work too, but until we figure out why it's not working can you try copying brms and checking if that works? Here's the DESCRIPTION file:

https://github.com/paul-buerkner/brms/blob/0e821e664395c25de8a06fe4bb84fa35cfe4dcc8/DESCRIPTION#L108-L109

[marouenbg]

Thanks @jgabry. cc @taraeicher, I will try that and report back!