This is arguably off-topic, but just mentioning that unless you have a need to install from source, you should consider installing the pre-built binaries.
For linux check out Dirk Eddelbuettel's r2u (R to Ubuntu): : https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/ Your life will never be the same. :-) HTH, Eric On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM Evan Cooch <evan.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, I decided to update from 4.4.3 -> 4.5.0. Updating all packages in > one shot (selecting all of the offered updates) failed, on all my > machines (Linux, Windows - lots of RAM, lots of CPU speed). So, tried > the updates a few at a time. Didn't take me long to discover that the > 'culprit' was the BH packages. For some reason, it takes a *long* time > for it to download/update or download/install. Even installing from a > local download took a long time. So long, that on my Windows machines, > the Rgui simply stopped responding. At all. Had to kill the process > manually, and try again. > > So, in case anyone else runs into this (I've replicated the problem on 5 > different machines - 3 Windows, 2 Linux) > > 1\ if BH is included in a slew of updates you're trying to apply all at > once, it might clobber everything because its choking on BH, kill RGui > on my Windows machines. Less of an issue on my Linux boxes (good old > CLI), but still... > > 2\ even BH alone requires some patience. On a high-end machine (24 > threads, 64 Gb RAM, etc etc) took almost 8 minutes to download/update. > Everything else (even big suckers like terra) took only seconds on said > machine. But BH? > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
