Error: Failed to install 'taxa' from Github

[sdhutchins]

Brief description of the problem

The package is not installing due to taxa.

> remotes::install_github("vallenderlab/MicrobiomeR@issue-105")
Downloading GitHub repo vallenderlab/MicrobiomeR@issue-105
Skipping 1 packages not available: XML
Downloading GitHub repo ropensci/taxa@HEAD
Skipping 1 packages not available: XML
Installing 27 packages: uuid, fastmatch, igraph, quadprog, ape, triebeard, WikipediR, httpcode, urltools, crul, WikidataR, solrium, XML, rncl, rentrez, reshape, conditionz, phangorn, wikitaxa, natserv, worrms, ritis, rotl, rredlist, bold, zoo, taxize
Installing packages into ‘C:/Users/shutchins2/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Error: Failed to install 'MicrobiomeR' from GitHub:
  Failed to install 'taxa' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) package ‘XML’ is not available (for R version 3.6.0)

Session Information

R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 17763)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.0 tools_3.6.0    curl_4.3       remotes_2.2.0 

[sdhutchins]

There just seems to be major backwards compatibility with R.

The install worked with the latest version of R. Perhaps we need to make that mandatory in the Description file.

R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] rstudioapi_0.11   magrittr_1.5      usethis_1.6.1     devtools_2.3.1    pkgload_1.1.0     R6_2.4.1         
 [7] rlang_0.4.7       fansi_0.4.1       tools_4.0.2       pkgbuild_1.1.0    sessioninfo_1.1.1 cli_2.0.2        
[13] withr_2.2.0       ellipsis_0.3.1    remotes_2.2.0     assertthat_0.2.1  digest_0.6.25     rprojroot_1.3-2  
[19] crayon_1.3.4      processx_3.4.3    callr_3.4.3       fs_1.5.0          ps_1.3.3          curl_4.3         
[25] testthat_2.3.2    memoise_1.1.0     glue_1.4.1        compiler_4.0.2    desc_1.2.0        backports_1.1.8  
[31] prettyunits_1.1.1