Flexlavaan download problem

[AnilYasin]

Hi Dustin,
Hope all is good.
I am trying to download the “flexplavaan,” but keep getting the error message. In case some others are experiencing the same problem, I decided to post it in here. So that others may also benefit.

The error message that I keep receiving:

"devtools::install_github("dustinfife/flexplavaan")
Downloading GitHub repo dustinfife/flexplavaan@HEAD
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, :
download from 'https://api.github.com/repos/dustinfife/flexplavaan/tarball/HEAD’ failed”

and if I try the ref=“development”, I end up with the following:

devtools::install_github("dustinfife/flexplavaan", ref="development")
Downloading GitHub repo dustinfife/flexplavaan@development
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, :
download from 'https://api.github.com/repos/dustinfife/flexplavaan/tarball/development' failed

Do you know what might be causing this problem and how may I solve?
I appreciate any help you may provide. Also, thanks for developing such cool content on YouTube as well as here!
Best Wishes!

[dustinfife]

It might be timing out. Try doing as suggested here

[AnilYasin]

Thank you so much for response, Dustin. It is solved 👍 . Well appreciate it!

For those who may need help, here are what I tried and what worked for me:

I tried re-installing R and packages, did not work.
I tried to change package downloading source, it did not help.
I remove and re-install the devtools, it failed as well.
However, as Dustin suspected, the time out was the main issue.

Here is the quick note that fixed the main problem in my case:
options(timeout=9999999)

Then, I received another error stating "Loading required package: usethis”
It is a workflow related problem as far as I understand. You can install this package separately. After installation, instead of using “::” operator, first load the “usethis” through library. Then, load the “devtools.”

Then, using "devtools::install_github("dustinfife/flexplavaan” works perfectly fine.
Note: Another colleague, who had the same issue, did not need to install “usethis.” Hence, depending on the case, you may just able to skip it.

Best wishes!