Add a version dependency for R.utils (#7328)

* Add a version dependency for R.utils

* R.utils version error

* codecov

* also qualify R version

* have to base:: for getRversion

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Co-authored-by: Jan Gorecki <[email protected]>

Author: MichaelChirico

DESCRIPTION

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Version: 1.17.99
 Title: Extension of `data.frame`
 Depends: R (>= 3.4.0)
 Imports: methods
-Suggests: bit64 (>= 4.0.0), bit (>= 4.0.4), R.utils, xts, zoo (>= 1.8-1), yaml, knitr, markdown
+Suggests: bit64 (>= 4.0.0), bit (>= 4.0.4), R.utils (>= 2.13.0), xts, zoo (>= 1.8-1), yaml, knitr, markdown
 Description: Fast aggregation of large data (e.g. 100GB in RAM), fast ordered joins, fast add/modify/delete of columns by group using no copies at all, list columns, friendly and fast character-separated-value read/write. Offers a natural and flexible syntax, for faster development.
 License: MPL-2.0 | file LICENSE
 URL: https://r-datatable.com, https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table, https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table

R/fread.R

@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ yaml=FALSE, tmpdir=tempdir(), tz="UTC")
     if ((w <- endsWithAny(file, c(".gz", ".bgz",".bz2"))) || (gzsig <- is_gzip(file_signature)) || is_bzip(file_signature)) {
       if (!requireNamespace("R.utils", quietly = TRUE))
         stopf("To read %s files directly, fread() requires 'R.utils' package which cannot be found. Please install 'R.utils' using 'install.packages('R.utils')'.", if (w<=2L || gzsig) "gz" else "bz2") # nocov
+      # not worth doing a behavior test here, so just use getRversion().
+      if (packageVersion("R.utils") < "2.13.0" && base::getRversion() >= "4.5.0")
+        stopf("Reading compressed files in fread requires R.utils version 2.13.0 or higher. Please upgrade R.utils.") # nocov
       FUN = if (w<=2L || gzsig) gzfile else bzfile
       decompFile = tempfile(tmpdir=tmpdir)
       on.exit(unlink(decompFile), add=TRUE)