From 6c9d0c30f7f47457a5a95a0ce39281ea130f4b2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Lamb <jaylamb20@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:58:18 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [ci] fix R linting job (fixes #3873) (#3877)

* [ci] fix R linting job (fixes #3873)

* need to run static analysis

* uncomment CI configs

* Update .ci/test.sh
---
 .ci/test.sh | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.ci/test.sh b/.ci/test.sh
index e7d096a31dc5..a150d33ffab0 100755
--- a/.ci/test.sh
+++ b/.ci/test.sh
@@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ if [[ $TASK == "lint" ]]; then
         pycodestyle \
         pydocstyle \
         r-stringi  # stringi needs to be installed separate from r-lintr to avoid issues like 'unable to load shared object stringi.so'
+    # r-xfun below has to be upgraded because lintr requires > 0.19 for that package
     conda install -q -y -n $CONDA_ENV \
         -c conda-forge \
             libxml2 \
+            "r-xfun>=0.19" \
             "r-lintr>=2.0"
     pip install --user cpplint mypy
     echo "Linting Python code"