Loading {logistf} breaks MCMCglmm() - r

Question

Loading the package logistf breaks MCMCglmm(). Unloading logistf before running the command doesn't remove the error.
Why is that? Is there a way to solve this?
Works
library(MCMCglmm)
#> Loading required package: Matrix
#> Loading required package: coda
#> Loading required package: ape
data(PlodiaPO)
MCMCglmm(PO ~ plate, data = PlodiaPO)
#>
#> MCMC iteration = 0
#>
#> MCMC iteration = 1000
#>
#> MCMC iteration = 2000
#>
#> MCMC iteration = 3000
#>
[...]
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "MCMCglmm"
Created on 2022-06-07 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)
Doesn't work
library(logistf)
library(MCMCglmm)
#> Loading required package: Matrix
#> Loading required package: coda
#> Loading required package: ape
data(PlodiaPO)
MCMCglmm(PO ~ plate, data = PlodiaPO)
#> Error in terms.formula(formula, data = data): invalid term in model formula
unloadNamespace("logistf")
MCMCglmm(PO ~ plate, data = PlodiaPO)
#> Error in terms.formula(formula, data = data): invalid term in model formula
Created on 2022-06-07 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

Answer 1

After some research i found that the problem not from logistf but it comes from the imported package formula.tools to reproduce the error try :
library(formula.tools)
#>formula.tools-1.7.1 - Copyright © 2022 Decision Patterns
library(MCMCglmm)
#> Loading required package: Matrix
#> Loading required package: coda
#> Loading required package: ape
data(PlodiaPO)
MCMCglmm(PO ~ plate, data = PlodiaPO)
#> Error in terms.formula(formula, data = data) :
invalid term in model formula
and this issue known for formula.tools see Weird package dependency introduces error
The solution detailed in this issue is:
fork fomula.tools repo
(remove this line)[https://github.com/decisionpatterns/formula.tools/blob/45b6654e4d8570cbaf1e2fd527652471202d97ad/NAMESPACE#L3]
install_github from your repo
OR
run as.character.formula = function(x) as.character.default(x) right after loading formula.tools. That might break code using as.character.formula though (but not sure).
Thanks for this question