taxize has been kicked off CRAN

[slager]

https://cran.r-project.org/package=taxize

@maelle

[zachary-foster]

Hello! I am aware of this and am working on an update. A few of the APIs have changed since the last update and it is proving times consuming to understand these changes and update the assocaited functions. I have also been sick this last week, but I should have more time to look into it now.

[maelle]

Any help needed @zachary-foster? In any case, take care 🍵

[zachary-foster]

Thank you @maelle! Help could be useful if there was someone familiar with the changes to the Global Names Resolver API, but I expect I have now spent enough time looking into it that it would be most efficient overall for me to continue the changes. The main issue is that I was not familiar with the last API so its difficult to understand how it changed and the intended output of the functions when the old API was working. If I get stuck I will let you know.

[andresc2020]

any update on this?
I am trying to install taxize but I am becoming crazy

[RobLBaker]

@andresc2020 You could try this solution as a temporary fix. Won't solve the underlying issues, but will allow you to install taxize:

library(remotes)

install_github("ropensci/taxize")

[zachary-foster]

I am still working on this, but its hard to give a time estimate. I was going to say the same as @RobLBaker. Installing from GitHub should work.

[albanmathieu-pro]

Hi, i have the same first error ,
and trying to download from fithub gave me this:

`install_github("ropensci/taxize")
Using GitHub PAT from the git credential store.
Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from GitHub:
HTTP error 401.
Bad credentials

Rate limit remaining: 55/60
Rate limit reset at: 2024-10-29 22:25:17 UTC
`

[zachary-foster]

The code to install from github works for me. All of this output is unusual:

Using GitHub PAT from the git credential store.
Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from GitHub:
HTTP error 401.
Bad credentials

Rate limit remaining: 55/60
Rate limit reset at: 2024-10-29 22:25:17 UTC

This might be an issue with whatever server you are using R on rather than with the package code. I have installed a lot of R packages from github over the years and never seen anything messages like that.

[joelnitta]

Inability to install taxize also seems to be related to {bold} being removed from CRAN

> renv::install("ropensci/taxize")
Error:                                                                      
! error in pak subprocess
Caused by error: 
! Could not solve package dependencies:
* ropensci/taxize: Can't install dependency bold (>= 0.8.6)
* bold: Can't find package called bold.

[thokall]

It should then be enough to also install bold directly from github before trying to install taxize. Hopefully both of these packages will soon be available from cran again.

install_github("ropensci/bold")