[R] 4.5.0 | update/install BH

[Evan Cooch]

So, I decided to update from 4.4.3 -> 4.5.0. Updating all packages in 
one shot (selecting all of the offered updates) failed, on all my 
machines (Linux, Windows - lots of RAM, lots of CPU speed). So, tried 
the updates a few at a time. Didn't take me long to discover that the 
'culprit' was the BH packages. For some reason, it takes a *long* time 
for it to download/update or download/install. Even installing from a 
local download took a long time. So long, that on my Windows machines, 
the Rgui simply stopped responding. At all. Had to kill the process 
manually, and try again.

So, in case anyone else runs into this (I've replicated the problem on 5 
different machines - 3 Windows, 2 Linux)

1\ if BH is included in a slew of updates you're trying to apply all at 
once, it might clobber everything because its choking on BH, kill RGui 
on my Windows machines. Less of an issue on my Linux boxes (good old 
CLI), but still...

2\ even BH alone requires some patience. On a high-end machine (24 
threads, 64 Gb RAM, etc etc) took almost 8 minutes to download/update. 
Everything else (even big suckers like terra) took only seconds on said 
machine. But BH?


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