can't install v1.2.2 on MacOS with R installed from homebrew

[venpopov]

When I try to install rsconnect I get an error because I can't install PKI:

checking for openssl/ssl.h... no
configure: Missing OpenSSL headers on macOS,
configure: attempting to get headers from Apple...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   257  100   257    0     0   3750      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  3779
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 14.8M    0 14.8M    0     0  10.4M      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 8017k
configure: error: Failed to download OpenSSL sources from Apple. Please install OpenSSL headers before installing PKI.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘PKI’
* removing ‘/opt/homebrew/lib/R/4.4/site-library/PKI’
ERROR: dependency ‘PKI’ is not available for package ‘rsconnect’
* removing ‘/opt/homebrew/lib/R/4.4/site-library/rsconnect’

I spent 1 hour trying to solve this and here is what I found.

apparently this is a longstanding problem with PKI, which is why rsconnect switched to openssl package instead back in 2018.

Unfortunately, the PKI dependency was reintroduced 2 months ago

I can easily install rsconnect 1.2.1 before PKI dependency was reintroduced:

devtools::install_version('rsconnect', version = "1.2.1")
Downloading package from url: https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rsconnect/rsconnect_1.2.1.tar.gz
Installing package into ‘/opt/homebrew/lib/R/4.4/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘rsconnect’ ...
** package ‘rsconnect’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
*** copying figures
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (rsconnect)

[aronatkins]

Related: s-u/PKI#32

[aronatkins]

@venpopov - Is this still a problem for you now that PKI is installing?

[venpopov]

I just checked, now it installs just fine!

[aronatkins]

Closing, as availability of PKI was resolved.

[jonkeane]

This is a totally separate issue from rsconnect, but in case you didn't know this, @venpopov : if you install R from brew with the --cask option you will be able to use macOS binaries from CRAN or other repositories. Which would then avoid needing to build things like PKI from source.

[hekatonsure]

same issue is happening again on Windows, also fixed by installing rsconnect 1.2.1