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

[katrinabrock]

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• Run unit tests
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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 🤞.

[codecov-commenter]

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

@@ Coverage Diff @@## master #1077 +/- ##
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Coverage 87.22% 87.22% =======================================
Files 14 14 Lines 5973 5973 =======================================
Hits 5210 5210 Misses 763 763 

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[katrinabrock]

@andrjohns@jgabry this can be merged

[jgabry]

Great, thanks @katrinabrock!