Cannot install hemibrainr

[ASiliciano]

Successfully installed natverse and neuprintr, and I would like to start using hemibrainr, however the installation failed. I copied directly from the installation instructions and get the error message below. Any help would be appreciated.
Using Mac OS 11.3
R 4.2.0
R studio 2022.02.3

> if (!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
> remotes::install_github("natverse/hemibrainr")
Using github PAT from envvar GITHUB_PAT
Downloading GitHub repo natverse/hemibrainr@HEAD
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet,  : 
  download from 'https://api.github.com/repos/natverse/hemibrainr/tarball/HEAD' failed

[jefferis]

Thanks for your interest and sorry you're having installation troubles. Unfortunately hemibrain is a rather large R package (~ 60 MB, due to the presence of metadata in the repo) and depending on your network and github situation there can be timeouts. You can try to download the zip file of the current master https://github.com/natverse/hemibrainr/archive/refs/heads/master.zip and then install manually like so:

remotes::install_local("hemibrainr-master.zip")

If that still doesn't work, you can git clone the whole repository and then do

remotes::install_local("path/to/hemibrainr")