I am running R on an AWS ubuntu instance. I have completely uninstalled and purged R, deleted libPaths followed by re-installation of r-base. Whenever I try to install.packages() for any package R sits in a non responsive state, no '>' or error messages is shown below.
Weirdly I can install packages with a line like this: install.packages(("devtools"),repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")
and then packages install. However this is problematic since I want to use BiocManager::install() and update.packages(), both of which timeout as well.
Any hints as to what could be wrong here? I also wiped the RDS files as I was getting an error
"Error in readRDS(dest) : error reading from connection."