R Install GitHub Package Timeout Issue Solution

When installing packages from GitHub in R, sometimes you may encounter a connection timeout issue with GitHub. Here’s how to solve it.

Essentially, this involves loading the curl package and using curl to download the package. This might only work on Linux systems.

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options(download.file.method = "libcurl")
library('curl')
install_github(PACKAGENAME)

• If the installed package still cannot return an object, try manually downloading the package and then modifying the source code to install directly from the source.

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install.packages(path_to_file, repos = NULL, type="source")