Problem in the installation of R package rsvg - r

Question

I'm trying to install r package rsvg without any success. Tried the following two methods:
1. install.packages("rsvg")
install.packages("rsvg")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/hp/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
There is a binary version available but the source version is
later:
binary source needs_compilation
rsvg 2.3.1 2.3.2 TRUE
installing the source package ‘rsvg’
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/rsvg_2.3.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 183798 bytes (179 KB)
downloaded 179 KB
* installing *source* package 'rsvg' ...
** package 'rsvg' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** libs
rm -f rsvg.dll rsvg.o
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-42~1.1/bin/x64/Rscript.exe" "../tools/winlibs.R" 2.48.8
Error in download.file(sprintf("https://github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/archive/v%s.zip", :
download from 'https://github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/archive/v2.48.8.zip' failed
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(sprintf("https://github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/archive/v%s.zip", :
URL 'https://codeload.github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/zip/refs/tags/v2.48.8': Timeout of 60 seconds was reached
Execution halted
make: *** [Makevars.win:7: winlibs] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rsvg'
* removing 'C:/Users/hp/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2/rsvg'
The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpmG8xM2\downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("rsvg") :
installation of package ‘rsvg’ had non-zero exit status
2. remotes::install_github("ropensci/rsvg")
library(remotes)
install_github("ropensci/rsvg")
Downloading GitHub repo ropensci/rsvg#HEAD
✔ checking for file 'C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpmG8xM2\remotes5a645f9057ed\ropensci-rsvg-6d9840f/DESCRIPTION'
─ preparing 'rsvg':
checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
✔ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information
─ cleaning src
─ checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
─ checking for empty or unneeded directories
─ building 'rsvg_2.3.2.tar.gz'
Warning:
Warning: file 'rsvg/cleanup' did not have execute permissions: corrected
Warning: file 'rsvg/configure' did not have execute permissions: corrected
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/hp/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'rsvg' ...
** using staged installation
** libs
rm -f rsvg.dll rsvg.o
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-42~1.1/bin/x64/Rscript.exe" "../tools/winlibs.R" 2.48.8
Error in download.file(sprintf("https://github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/archive/v%s.zip", :
download from 'https://github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/archive/v2.48.8.zip' failed
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In download.file(sprintf("https://github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/archive/v%s.zip", :
downloaded length 35551249 != reported length 43111940
2: In download.file(sprintf("https://github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/archive/v%s.zip", :
URL 'https://codeload.github.com/rwinlib/rsvg/zip/refs/tags/v2.48.8': Timeout of 60 seconds was reached
Execution halted
make: *** [Makevars.win:7: winlibs] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rsvg'
* removing 'C:/Users/hp/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2/rsvg'
Warning message:
In i.p(...) :
installation of package ‘C:/Users/hp/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpmG8xM2/file5a645596780/rsvg_2.3.2.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
sessionInfo()
sessionInfo()
R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22000)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] remotes_2.4.2
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] processx_3.8.0 compiler_4.2.1 R6_2.5.1 rprojroot_2.0.3 cli_3.4.1 prettyunits_1.1.1 tools_4.2.1 withr_2.5.0
[9] curl_4.3.3 crayon_1.5.2 callr_3.7.2 ps_1.7.2 pkgbuild_1.3.1

Answer 1

According to this issue, you should first install pkgconfig like this:
install.packages('pkgconfig')
install.packages('rsvg')
library(rsvg)
#> Linking to librsvg 2.48.4
Created on 2022-10-28 with reprex v2.0.2

Answer 2

It looks like you experience some connection issues when installing the required winlib. You could also try to install this first:
remotes::install_github("rwinlib/rsvg")
EDIT: Same suggestion as the comment by #Limey