experiment2 fails to detect installed pkg version is more recent and fails where spades doesn't

[CeresBarros]

experiment2 is complaining that a particular (earlier) version of SpaDES.core -- which is listed in one of the modules -- is not available, when the installed version is higher.
Also, running spades on the same simLists presents no issues.

## separate spades calls work:
> spades(mySimGLM, debug = TRUE)  
Mar10 17:05:58       Using setDTthreads(1). To change: 'options(spades.DTthreads = X)'.
Mar10 17:05:58 chckpn eventTime moduleName eventType eventPriority
Mar10 17:05:58 chckpn 1         checkpoint init      0            
Mar10 17:05:58 save   1         save       init      0            
Mar10 17:05:58 prgrss 1         progress   init      0            
Mar10 17:05:58 load   1         load       init      0            
(...)
Mar10 17:07:00 prjctS Saved figure to: D:/GitHub/SpaDES4Dummies/outputs/figures/projRawVals_GLM_Year5.png
Mar10 17:07:01 prjctS Saving 4.37 x 4.24 in image
Mar10 17:07:03 prjctS Saved figure to: D:/GitHub/SpaDES4Dummies/outputs/figures/projPA_GLM_Year5.png
simList saved in
 SpaDES.core:::.pkgEnv$.sim 
It will be deleted at next spades() call.

> spades(mySimMaxEnt, debug = TRUE)  
Mar10 17:02:24       Using setDTthreads(1). To change: 'options(spades.DTthreads = X)'.
Mar10 17:02:24 chckpn eventTime moduleName eventType eventPriority
Mar10 17:02:24 chckpn 1         checkpoint init      0            
Mar10 17:02:24 save   1         save       init      0            
Mar10 17:02:24 prgrss 1         progress   init      0            
Mar10 17:02:24 load   1         load       init      0            
Mar10 17:02:24 clmtDt 1         climateData init      1            
(...)           
Mar10 17:03:32 prjctS Saving 4.37 x 4.24 in image
Mar10 17:03:34 prjctS Saved figure to: D:/GitHub/SpaDES4Dummies/outputs/figures/projRawVals_MaxEnt_Year5.png
Mar10 17:03:35 prjctS Saving 4.37 x 4.24 in image
Mar10 17:03:37 prjctS Saved figure to: D:/GitHub/SpaDES4Dummies/outputs/figures/projPA_MaxEnt_Year5.png
simList saved in
 SpaDES.core:::.pkgEnv$.sim 
It will be deleted at next spades() call.

## experiment2 fails
> experiment2(MaxEnt = mySimMaxEnt, 
+             GLM = mySimGLM, 
+             debug = TRUE, 
+             replicates = 1)
Error in loadNamespace(pkg) : 
  there is no package called ‘SpaDES.core (>=1.0.10.9005)’

My session info:

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                   
[5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] dismo_1.3-5                  raster_3.5-15                sp_1.4-6                     data.table_1.14.2           
 [5] terra_1.5-21                 rasterVis_0.51.2             lattice_0.20-45              ggplot2_3.3.5               
 [9] SpaDES.experiment_0.0.2.9002 SpaDES.tools_0.3.10          SpaDES.core_1.0.10.9007      quickPlot_0.1.7.9002        
[13] reproducible_1.2.8.9040      SpaDES_2.0.8                

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] CircStats_0.2-6     gdalUtilities_1.2.0 fastdigest_0.6-3    fs_1.5.2            fpCompare_0.2.3     sf_1.0-6            bit64_4.0.5        
 [8] RColorBrewer_1.1-2  tools_4.0.4         backports_1.4.1     utf8_1.2.2          rgdal_1.5-28        R6_2.5.1            KernSmooth_2.23-20 
[15] rgeos_0.5-9         DBI_1.1.2           colorspace_2.0-3    withr_2.4.3         bit_4.0.4           compiler_4.0.4      labeling_0.4.2     
[22] stringfish_0.15.5   scales_1.1.1        checkmate_2.0.0     hexbin_1.28.2       classInt_0.4-3      proxy_0.4-26        digest_0.6.29      
[29] rmarkdown_2.12      jpeg_0.1-9          pkgconfig_2.0.3     htmltools_0.5.2     parallelly_1.30.0   DEoptim_2.2-6       fastmap_1.1.0      
[36] rlang_0.4.11        rstudioapi_0.13     RSQLite_2.2.10      farver_2.1.0        RApiSerialize_0.1.0 zoo_1.8-9           magrittr_2.0.1     
[43] Rcpp_1.0.8          munsell_0.5.0       fansi_1.0.2         lifecycle_1.0.1     whisker_0.4         yaml_2.3.5          MASS_7.3-55        
[50] grid_4.0.4          blob_1.2.2          parallel_4.0.4      listenv_0.8.0       crayon_1.5.0        Require_0.0.13.9003 knitr_1.37         
[57] pillar_1.7.0        igraph_1.2.11       boot_1.3-28         future.apply_1.8.1  codetools_0.2-18    fastmatch_1.1-3     glue_1.6.2         
[64] evaluate_0.15       latticeExtra_0.6-29 remotes_2.4.2       RcppParallel_5.1.5  vctrs_0.3.8         png_0.1-7           gtable_0.3.0       
[71] purrr_0.3.4         qs_0.25.3           future_1.24.0       cachem_1.0.5        xfun_0.29           gridBase_0.4-7      e1071_1.7-9        
[78] class_7.3-20        googledrive_2.0.0   viridisLite_0.4.0   gargle_1.2.0        tibble_3.1.6        rJava_1.0-6         memoise_2.0.1      
[85] units_0.8-0         globals_0.14.0      ellipsis_0.3.2     

Note that I'm using the recently PRed version of SpaDES.experiment@development (c594ea3), because there was a big I had to fix earlier.

[CeresBarros]

Update: I bypassed the issue by adding the PredictiveEcology repo to the SpaDES.core minimum version listed in the module. But it puzzles me that spades didn't need that and experiment2 did.