[R] extremely long installation of devtools

[Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 09:57, Christopher C. Lanz via R-help
<r-help using r-project.org> wrote:

> Help! I followed the instructions I found to install ggbiplot, and entered "install_packages("devtools")" about 25 minutes ago, and the installation procedure is continuing as I write this.

Hi,

  This is a lot of guess-work because you didn't write which
operationsystem or which version of R you are using.
  Also I guess you wrote: "install.packages("devtools") and not
install_packages("devtools").

  If you are using Windows, then you might the Rtools package before
installing devtools.
  If you are using Linux, then you might need to install a
C/C++-compiler for your Linux first.
  If ...

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> Should I terminate the process, or is this a normal event?
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