MASS not available in repo

[aclark02-arcus]

For MASS, per @Robert-Krajcik:

[jthompson-arcus]

So further investigation shows that MASS is not an available package from the repository which is why the version comes in as character(0), not because it uses the old style of versioning.

[emilliman5]

FYI, The newest version of MASS requires R v4.4.0. I ran into this same problem when installing tidyverse in a new renv env and had to install from an earlier snapshot. I don' think RA installs the package to run assessment but I wonder if you are doing a dependency search when doing assessment the version of R might matter.

[jthompson-arcus]

Hmm, this appears to be precisely what is going on. We are using available.package() and it has a built in filter based on R version.

[aclark02-arcus]

closed with #808