Weird error while deteching R verison

[andyquinterom]

There is this weird bug (that I cannot reproduce outside of a very specific environment) when restoring a package from renv.

Basically, build.rs is unable to get the R version due to a NULL being printed before the version. There is no global R profile. The package install ok with remotes (even when renv is initialized).

I think we could fix this by running this in a while loop or using an iteraton while a skip while.

[JosiahParry]

I'm wondering if semver would be better to use here as a build dependency. it could probably reduce the total amount of code required to parse the R version

[andyquinterom]

I'm wondering if semver would be better to use here as a build dependency. it could probably reduce the total amount of code required to parse the R version

I wouldn't think so. semver has a lot of code to it. I think the current implementation is ok. Semver would not fix the handling of edge cases such as this