sf package will not install R version 4.0.3

[seandres11]

Hi!

I am having a hard time getting sf to install on my computer (Macbook Pro 2017) with the latest version of Rstudio.

When I call the command
install.packages("sf")

I get the following error message:
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0/sf_0.9-7.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 89143896 bytes (85.0 MB)

downloaded 8.0 MB

Warning in install.packages :
downloaded length 8421340 != reported length 89143896
Warning in install.packages :
URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0/sf_0.9-7.tgz': Timeout of 60 seconds was reached
Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
download from 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0/sf_0.9-7.tgz' failed
Warning in install.packages :
download of package ‘sf’ failed

Normally sf has not caused me issues, however I seem to be having a hard time getting the package to install.

Let me know if I can provide anything else to help.

Cheers,
Sam

[edzer]

a problem with the CRAN mirror: please try again, or try another mirror.

[seandres11]

I have tried changing a few mirrors and still have no luck.

This package is a dependency for many other packages I am using at the moment and I am unsure how to debug the fail to download.

Let me know if I can provide any other informaiton

[edzer]

Seems to be a broader problem, some follow-up here: https://hypatia.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2021-January/013884.html

[jimhester]

A workaround is to use https://mac.r-project.org/ as your CRAN mirror, as the issue is really in syncing that mirror with the rest of the mirrors. https://mac.r-project.org/ itself is internally consistent.