I am trying to install `RnBeads` from bioconductor but the installation of its dependancy `TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene` fails. The error is:

    biocLite("RnBeads")
    BioC_mirror: https://bioconductor.org
    Using Bioconductor 3.6 (BiocInstaller 1.28.0), R 3.4.3 (2017-11-30).
    Installing package(s) ‘RnBeads’
    also installing the dependencies ‘FDb.InfiniumMethylation.hg19’, ‘methylumi’

    trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.6/data/annotation/src/contrib/FDb.InfiniumMethylation.hg19_2.2.0.tar.gz'
    Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 38996322 bytes (37.2 MB)
    ==================================================
    downloaded 37.2 MB

    trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.6/bioc/src/contrib/methylumi_2.24.1.tar.gz'
    Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 6178909 bytes (5.9 MB)
    ==================================================
    downloaded 5.9 MB

    trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.6/bioc/src/contrib/RnBeads_1.10.2.tar.gz'
    Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 6437974 bytes (6.1 MB)
    ==================================================
    downloaded 6.1 MB

    * installing *source* package ‘FDb.InfiniumMethylation.hg19’ ...
    ** R
    ** data
    ** demo
    ** inst
    ** preparing package for lazy loading
    Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene’:
     .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene', details:
      call: NULL
      error: evaluation nested too deeply: infinite recursion / options(expressions=)?
    Error : package ‘TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene’ could not be loaded
    ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘FDb.InfiniumMethylation.hg19’

    The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/RtmpY8Yf4l/downloaded_packages’
    installation path not writeable, unable to update packages: doMC, doSNOW,
      foreach, iterators, snow, boot, class, cluster, codetools, foreign,
      KernSmooth, lattice, MASS, Matrix, mgcv, nlme, nnet, rpart, spatial, survival

As suggested by the error message, I tried setting `options(expressions=500000)`, which unfortunately did not change the error message. An important note may be that I am under network mount and don't have administrative access rights.

I don't have a .Rprofile file.

Note about `installation path not writeable`:
Typing .libPaths() reveals that my home R folder is at the first position (and it is writable). The other paths (`"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"`, `"/usr/lib/R/site-library"` and `"/usr/lib/R/library"`) are not writable without sudo.

I also tried to delete my home R folder and to reinstall it. The reinstallation worked for all packages except for the three listed above (same error message). I also tried `biocLite("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene", lib.loc=.libPaths()[1], lib=.libPaths()[1])` to specifically address my home R directory, but the same error is showing up (but without the `installation path not writeable` part).

The error does not change if the package or its dependencies are installed in a vanilla R session.

Here is my sessionInfo():

    R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
    Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
    Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

    Matrix products: default
    BLAS: /usr/lib/openblas-base/libopenblas.so.0
    LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.0

    locale:
     [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
     [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
     [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
     [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
     [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
    [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

    attached base packages:
    [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

    other attached packages:
    [1] BiocInstaller_1.28.0

    loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
    [1] compiler_3.4.3 tools_3.4.3

And this is the output of biocValid()

R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/openblas-base/libopenblas.so.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.28.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.3 tools_3.4.3

* Out-of-date packages
          Package     LibPath                   Installed Built   ReposVer
doMC      "doMC"      "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "1.3.2"   "3.0.2" "1.3.5"
doSNOW    "doSNOW"    "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "1.0.9"   "3.0.2" "1.0.16"
foreach   "foreach"   "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "1.4.1"   "3.0.1" "1.4.4"
iterators "iterators" "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "1.0.6"   "3.0.0" "1.0.9"
snow      "snow"      "/usr/lib/R/site-library" "0.3-13"  "3.0.2" "0.4-2"
          Repository
doMC      "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib"
doSNOW    "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib"
foreach   "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib"
iterators "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib"
snow      "https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib"

update with biocLite()

Error: 5 package(s) out of date

Thank you very much!

Try re-installing the TxDb package, in a new 'vanilla' R session, e.g., from the command line `R --vanilla`