Install the latest release version from GitHub seems not work

[eitsupi]

The documentation suggests that the latest release version can be installed in the same way as remotes::install_github, by specifying the following, but pak 0.3.1 seems to install HEAD.

pak::pkg_install("tidyverse/dplyr@*release")

[tanho63]

Stumbled on this today as well, digging to see if I can find out what the issue is (looks like it's in pkgdepends)

[gaborcsardi]

Most probably, this was simply never implemented, contrary to the documentation. :(

[tanho63]

Stumbled on this PR r-lib/pkgdepends#321 by @pawelru while digging through pkgdepends, it looks like it adds the latest-release handling based on the existing PR-specific logic - could we reinvestigate that (obviously post-posit-conf?)

I just refactored a bunch of internal docker image builds to use pak assuming that this documented latest-release feature works so I'm pretty invested in getting it to work if possible 😅

[gaborcsardi]

That PR is merged, so it should be in the nightly pak build tomorrow.

[tanho63]

Thank you so much!