Installing duckdb 1.1.3-1 in RStudio with R v4.5 fails

I am trying to install duckdb v1.1.3-1 in my renv in Rstudio, in the most recent version of Endevour OS

Error: Error installing package 'duckdb':
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* installing *source* package ‘duckdb’ ...
** this is package ‘duckdb’ version ‘1.1.3-1’
** package ‘duckdb’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
+ '[' -f duckdb.tar.xz ']'
+ which xz
+ '[' -d .git ']'
+ cd src
+ tar cvJf duckdb.tar.xz duckdb
tar: duckdb: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
++ dirname ./configure
+ cd ./src
+ '[' -f '' ']'
+ cp include/to-tar.mk Makevars.duckdb
+ '[' -f duckdb.tar.xz ']'
+ tar xJf duckdb.tar.xz
** libs
using C++ compiler: ‘g++ (GCC) 15.1.1 20250425’
using C++17
make: *** No rule to make target 'duckdb/ub_src_catalog.o', needed by 'duckdb.tar'.  Stop.
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘duckdb’
* removing ‘/home/user/Documents/studies/renv/staging/1/duckdb’

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.6-arch1-1 (64-bit)

perhaps try the binary version
yay -S duckdb-bin

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