I have been able to install the development version of tidyr on my Ubuntu virtual machine, but I am having nothing but problems trying to get it installed on my main Windows 10 machine. One evidently needs a version of rlang to be able to download the development version of rlang from git-hub. So I cleaned rlang out of my private R library, installed the current standard version from an R repo, restarted R as administrator, and then tried the following, with the following results:
R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26) -- "Planting of a Tree"
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[Workspace loaded from ~/.RData]
> devtools::install_github("r-lib/rlang", build_vignettes = TRUE)
Downloading GitHub repo r-lib/rlang@master
√ checking for file 'C:\Users\lhunsicker1964\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpMxTbnK\remotes35b42c1a66a7\r-lib-rlang-6a232c0/DESCRIPTION' (1.1s)
- preparing 'rlang': (1.7s)
√ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
- cleaning src
- installing the package to process help pages (1.1s)
- cleaning src (28s)
- checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts (621ms)
- checking for empty or unneeded directories (637ms)
- building 'rlang_0.3.4.9003.tar.gz' (341ms)
Installing package into ‘C:/Larry/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'rlang' ...
R then hung for at least 10 minutes. This has happened now three times.
Any suggestions why R is hanging, and what I can do to update rlang to the current developer version, so that I can update tidyr and use the unnest_wider() function?
Addendum: This appears to be an R problem, not an RStudio problem, as the same thing happens when I run native R.