Build failing due to curl update

[JBrandon Duck-Mayr]

The most recent build of my bggum package (build link here) failed when an update to curl was attempted; the relevant portion starts at line 160 and you can see the error message at line 290; here's an abbreviated reproduction:

+ Rscript -e 'options(repos=c(CRAN="https://cran.rstudio.com")); remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE, type="both")'
askpass      (NA           -> 1.1         ) [CRAN]
backports    (1.1.2        -> 1.1.3       ) [CRAN]
callr        (3.0.0        -> 3.1.1       ) [CRAN]
clipr        (0.4.1        -> 0.5.0       ) [CRAN]
curl         (3.2          -> 3.3         ) [CRAN]

...

package 'curl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error: (converted from warning) cannot remove prior installation of package 'curl'
Execution halted
Command exited with code 1

Perhaps it's related to issue #76 ? The difference here being that I am in no way trying to manually change or update the curl version; it's just part of the normal default dependency updating -- I think. Any tips on workarounds, or something to look into that I may have inadvertently messed up?

Thanks!

[JBrandon Duck-Mayr]

If anyone else encounters this issue, I was able to get around it by deleting the cache.

[David Hugh-Jones]

I have this, and deleting the cache doesn't help! Again, I have no explicit dependency on curl, but it is pulled in as a recursive dependency of devtools itself, which is in Suggests: ...

[Gábor Csárdi]

Set R_REMOTES_STANDALONE=true, see https://github.com/r-lib/remotes#standalone-mode.

Then the installation will not use curl.