Investigate targets

[Jennit07]

I recently updated targets to version 1.10 but i just tried running targets to test the anon_chi changes and i came across this error. Investigation needed for checking targets functionality prior to the next update.

I just reverted back to version 1.8 so that i can test the anon_chi changes in the meantime. Here is the link to the targets NEWS.md https://github.com/ropensci/targets/blob/main/NEWS.md

*Update: the error appears when you run this in the console or as a workbench job

[lizihao-anu]

One possible temporary solution is to downgrade the targets to version 1.4.1, which is the one we always use. The command to achieve so is as follows.

require(remotes)
install_version("targets", version = "1.4.1", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

For the long term, we should update our scripts to align with the changes in the targets package. Should we aim to finish this in this March-2025 update sprint?