[R] Need help to resolve the Error: evaluation nested too deeply: infinite recursion / options(expressions=)? Execution halted

[Ben Bolker]

   Hmm, I can't replicate (i.e., it works fine for me).  What are the 
results of your sessionInfo() (from a *clean* R session)?

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R Under development (unstable) (2023-10-25 r85410)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Running under: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/liblapack.so.3; 
LAPACK version 3.10.0

<locale/tz redacted>

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
  [1] desc_1.4.2        R6_2.5.1          bspm_0.5.3 
remotes_2.4.2.1
  [5] ps_1.7.5          cli_3.6.1         processx_3.8.2    callr_3.7.3 

  [9] compiler_4.4.0    prettyunits_1.2.0 rprojroot_2.0.3   tools_4.4.0 

[13] pkgbuild_1.4.2    curl_5.0.1        crayon_1.5.2


On 2023-10-26 9:59 a.m., siddharth sahasrabudhe via R-help wrote:
> Hello Colleagues,
> 
> I am trying to get the Git repository using *remotes* package. I am
> using *remotes::install_github("dcl-docs/dcldata")
> *to get the Git repo.
> 
> However, I am getting the following error message. I have absolutely no
> idea on what this error message means and how to get away with this. Can
> anyone please suggest the way out...?
> 
> Here is the error message that i am getting:
> 
>> remotes::install_github("dcl-docs/dcldata")Downloading GitHub repo dcl-docs/dcldata using HEADRunning `R CMD build`...* checking for file 'C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWmVvZI\remotes2ddc1b982b8\dcl-docs-dcldata-0a08cbb/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'dcldata':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> * building 'dcldata_0.1.2.9000.tar.gz'Installing package into
> ‘C:/Users/admin/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)Error: evaluation nested too deeply: infinite
> recursion / options(expressions=)?
> Execution haltedWarning: installation of package
> ‘C:/Users/admin/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpWmVvZI/file2ddc7bed1881/dcldata_0.1.2.9000.tar.gz’
> had non-zero exit status
> 
> 
> Many thanks for the prompt help as always!
> 
> Regards
> Siddharth
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