[R-pkg-devel] Advice on elegant way to alias function name

[Ben Bolker]

On 2022-09-02 4:34 p.m., Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 2 September 2022 at 16:22, J C Nash wrote:
> | And I believe I've got the roxygen2 tags to work in Rstudio. In R itself,
> | roxygen2 gives an error
> |      Error: invalid version specification ‘0.68’
> | though the string '0.68' appears nowhere in my package according to grep.
> | I have no idea what this is about, especially as Rstudio works fine.
> 
> An unrelated, documented, yet unfixed bug in 'cli' affecting packages using it.
> 
> You need to define (in .Renviron, or via bash for your login, or system wide)
> the variable VTE_VERSION with any value, for example '1' will do.
> 
> E.g. I call roxygen on the shell via 'roxy.r' from littler and my command
> history has a few
> 
>     VTE_VERSION=1 roxy.r
> 
> It also bit me in 'rhub' and other packages communicating via 'cli'.
> 
> Dirk
> 

  Yes, this one is cryptic and frustrating.

https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/issues/2439#issuecomment-1174146075

   You can also solve the problem by installing the development version 
of cli from Github (the fix was made *one day* after the last CRAN 
release ...)