hisafer installation - how do I solve hard-coded installation path?

Question

I am installing the hisafer package (for biophysical modeling) following instructions from author(s) lead by Kevin Wolz:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("kevinwolz/hisafer")

here I got the answer:

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** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
ERROR: hard-coded installation path: please report to the package maintainer and use '--no-staged-install'
* removing 'C:/Users/houska/Documents/R/R-3.6.0/library/hisafer'
Error in i.p(...) : 
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/houska/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpI5hUAl/file32dc572b4098/hisafer_1.4.14.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

the following commands do not work, then:

library(hisafer)
vignette("hisafer-vignette")

What should I do to solve this problem?

Answer 1

This is related to the staged installation of packages introduced with R 3.6.0. You can disable it by passing the --no-staged-install option to R CMD INSTALL (as suggested by the error message):

devtools::install_github("kevinwolz/hisafer", INSTALL_opts="--no-staged-install")