conda install r-essentials takes forever

Question

I am unable to install the r-base and r-essentials packages into my conda environment. Whenever I run

conda install -c r r-base r-essentials

I just get the Solving environment message for a good hour or more before I just exit out altogether. This even occurs when I create a brand new environment without any other packages before attempting to install r-base and r-essentials.

What is going on here and is there any way to fix this?

Answer 1

Try that. conda install -c conda-forge r r-essentials .

Answer 2

For some reason there is a conflict when r-essentials and pip are in the same conda environment. You can solve it by creating a new environment that has the package directly:

conda create -n r_env -c r r-essentials