The version 5 does not support old mac anymore.

[kbubio]

I updated Rfishbase to version 5.0.0, but every time I tried to execute it, I ran into an issue with the DuckDB package related to the httpfs extension. It turns out that the latest version of DuckDB with httpfs support only works on macOS versions 13.0 or higher. Unfortunately, I’m still using macOS 11.0 (Big Sur).

After two days of attempting and failing to downgrade httpfs and struggling with compatibility issues, I’ve had to roll back to the previous version of Rfishbase (4.1.2), which works perfectly fine for now.

I’m sharing this here to raise awareness for those of us still on older Macs.

[cboettig]

apologies, I think this is a temporary issue with duckdb extensions --

Can you try:

remotes::install_github("cboettig/duckdbfs")

then restart R and try again?

And thanks for opening an issue to report this!