cat("::group::Register Repositories\n") fails

[chrbknudsen]

The build full site workflow fails right after
cat("::group::Install remotes\n")
With the message:
Error: Rscript: command not found

Setting install-r: to true in sandpaper-main.yaml resolves the issue.

[froggleston]

@chrbknudsen can you point us to your repository and workflow where this fails?

[froggleston]

I found an example in one of your repositories. This is most likely because you are using ubuntu 24.04. Could you roll back to 22.04 (jammy) and try again? 24.04 is known to be very buggy at the moment so we would recommend sticking to 22.04 for a few more months at least to allow issues to be resolved in the main OS.

From this information about 24.04 runners, a lot of software isn't available due to "maintenance reasons".

[chrbknudsen]

Thank you! That appears to solve the problem.
Let me add that the workflow came directly from the sandpaper workflows - it would appear that the problem might not be specific to my repo.

[froggleston]

That's correct @chrbknudsen - this would affect all future lesson builds so we've raised a PR to revert to 22.04 in the sandpaper workflows. Thank you for raising this issue!