cli_blue_bullet() is not exported properly and blows with an error as_job=TRUE (1.11.3 vs. 1.8.0)

[skolenik]

Prework

• I am posting a runnable reprex to help others troubleshoot.

I don't have a reprex as the issue is between the command line and background job in RStudio. I searched the repo using GH search tools but all I found is cli_blue_bullet() mentioned in #856. I suspect it is somewhere but not properly exported / propagated.

Description

## Background run as_job=TRUE:
Error in cli_blue_bullet(c("tar_errored()", "tar_meta(fields = any_of(\"error\"), complete_only = TRUE)",  : 
  could not find function "cli_blue_bullet"
Calls: .rs.sourceWithProgress ... <Anonymous> -> callr_outer -> if_any -> callr_error -> paste
In addition: Warning messages:
1: package 'targets' was built under R version 4.4.3 
2: package 'tarchetypes' was built under R version 4.4.3 
Execution halted
## Console run:
> tar_make()
v skipped pipeline [9.5s, 12 skipped]    
> packageVersion("targets")
[1] ‘1.11.3’
> packageVersion("tarchetypes")
[1] ‘0.13.1’

With a much earlier version of targets that I had elsewhere on my computer (1.8.0), the background job ran producing something that was supposed to be a unicode but did not get rendered:

<U+2714> skipped target ruca_zip
<U+2714> skipped target cdc_svi_zip
<U+2714> skipped target epa_eqi_county
etc
<U+2714> skipped pipeline [9.234 seconds]
Warning message:
package 'tarchetypes' was built under R version 4.4.3 

reprex

[wlandau]

As the package itself no longer references cli_blue_bullet(), I don't think this is a bug in targets. Is it possible your parent R session is using one version of targets and the background job is using an earlier version? What happens if, for example, you inject a target in your pipeline that returns packageVersion("targets") so you can see the version in the background job?