Workaround for https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/755

[katrinabrock]

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Summary

This issue: r-lib/pak#755 (also reported here: r-lib/actions#994)
impacts github actions setup-r-dependenceis of ubuntu latest intermittently. I haven't seen it on main yet, but has it me when testing on my fork: https://github.com/katrinabrock/cmdstanr/actions/runs/14448908294/job/40516367645 Thought it would be good to per-emptively prevent this from causing CI failures.

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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[andrjohns]

Thanks!

[katrinabrock]

Looks like this is actually not working. :-/ Following up on the pak thread.

[katrinabrock]

This fix: r-lib/pkgdepends#442 should make the workaround run without error....let's see 🤞.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 87.22%. Comparing base (5f2a8c8) to head (14d81ac).

Additional details and impacted files

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  Coverage   87.22%   87.22%           
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  Files          14       14           
  Lines        5973     5973           
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  Hits         5210     5210           
  Misses        763      763           

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[katrinabrock]

@andrjohns @jgabry this can be merged

[jgabry]

Great, thanks @katrinabrock!