[help] Targets branches not in metadata: branches out of range

[Dpananos]

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Description

I've started a brand new R project and want to use targets. In an empty directory, and using renv, I have run the following commands

renv::activate()


print(list.files(all.files = T))
#> [1] "."                          ".."                        
#> [3] ".Rprofile"                  "cilia-stag_reprex.R"       
#> [5] "cilia-stag_reprex.spin.R"   "cilia-stag_reprex.spin.Rmd"
#> [7] "renv"


renv::install('targets', prompt=FALSE)
#> The following package(s) will be installed:
#> - backports   [1.5.0]
#> - base64url   [1.4]
#> - cpp11       [0.5.2]
#> - data.table  [1.17.8]
#> - igraph      [2.1.4]
#> - magrittr    [2.0.4]
#> - pillar      [1.11.1]
#> - pkgconfig   [2.0.3]
#> - prettyunits [1.2.0]
#> - secretbase  [1.0.5]
#> - targets     [1.11.4]
#> - tibble      [3.3.0]
#> - tidyselect  [1.2.1]
#> - utf8        [1.2.6]
#> - vctrs       [0.6.5]
#> These packages will be installed into "~/Repos/project/renv/library/macos/R-4.4/aarch64-apple-darwin20".
#> 
#> # Installing packages --------------------------------------------------------
#> - Installing backports ...                      OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing base64url ...                      OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing data.table ...                     OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing magrittr ...                       OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing pkgconfig ...                      OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing vctrs ...                          OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing cpp11 ...                          OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing igraph ...                         OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing prettyunits ...                    OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing secretbase ...                     OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing utf8 ...                           OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing pillar ...                         OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing tibble ...                         OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing tidyselect ...                     OK [copied from cache]
#> - Installing targets ...                        OK [copied from cache]
#> Successfully installed 15 packages in 0.39 seconds.

targets::use_targets()
#> ✔ Wrote _targets.R

print(list.files(all.files = T))
#> [1] "_targets.R"                 "."                         
#> [3] ".."                         ".Rprofile"                 
#> [5] "cilia-stag_reprex.R"        "cilia-stag_reprex.spin.R"  
#> [7] "cilia-stag_reprex.spin.Rmd" "renv"

targets::tar_make()
#> - The project is out-of-sync -- use `�]8;;x-r-run:renv::status()�renv::status()�]8;;�` for details.
#> tar_source(): these files do not exist: R
#> + data dispatched
#> ✔ data completed [5ms, 1.74 kB]
#> + model dispatched
#> ✔ model completed [1ms, 107 B]
#> ✔ ended pipeline [87ms, 2 completed, 0 skipped]

print(list.files(all.files = T))
#> [1] "_targets"                   "_targets.R"                
#> [3] "."                          ".."                        
#> [5] ".Rprofile"                  "cilia-stag_reprex.R"       
#> [7] "cilia-stag_reprex.spin.R"   "cilia-stag_reprex.spin.Rmd"
#> [9] "renv"

targets::tar_load_everything()
#> Error:
#> ! branches not in metadata: branches out of range

^{Created on 2025-09-28 with reprex v2.1.1}

As you can see, the pipeline succeeds in being built but loading everything from the pipeline fails. However, I am able to use targets::tar_load to get individual assets from the pipeline. It would be more convenient to load everything.

Could someone please help me understand what the error is trying to tell me and why I can't load all targets?

[wlandau]

This is a bug reported in #1529. Should be fixed in the development version.

pak::pkg_install("ropensci/targets")