Installing for the first time requires lots of updates

[RobLBaker]

The first time you install NPSdataverse there at LOTS of packages that need to be updated and the iterative updating process can be tedious, time consuming, and confusing. Is there a way to reduce the packages that need to be updated. For instance, add minimum package version requirements to imports?

[lploughe]

Install also results in an error. "Downloading GitHub repo nationalparkservice/NPSdataverse@HEAD
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, :
cannot open URL 'https://api.github.com/repos/nationalparkservice/NPSdataverse/tarball/HEAD'"

From what I can see it is a Windows issues, and running the line of code below before the install works:
options(download.file.method = "wininet")

[RobLBaker]

Yes, this is a known windows issue (or maybe Windows + NPS?). Unfortunately, there isn't much that can be done about it from the NPSdataverse side of things.