R help - Apr 2022 - Confused by error message: Error in assign(".popath", popath, .BaseNamespaceEnv)

I am trying to install a package and am getting an unusual (to me) error:

devtools::install_github("MikkoVihtakari/ggOceanMapsData")

Error in assign(".popath", popath, .BaseNamespaceEnv) :
cannot change value of locked binding for '.popath'
Calls: local ... eval.parent -> eval -> eval -> eval -> eval ->
assign

I have modified the R_USER, R_LIBS, HOME, etc settings to try and get R and
knitr to behave. I have been successful there, but now this error. Any
thoughts on what this means and how to fix the issue would be welcomed.

I found a similar post that indicated clearing the R history worked to
solve the issue, but that did not for me.

It appears to be associated with the base package and ".popath is a
variable created at startup which records where the translations package in
use is." I have noted that the translations package does exist in my R_LIBS
location.

I am not sure how to troubleshoot this error. Thanks in advance.

Session info:
R version 4.1.3 (2022-03-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19044)

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? Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:59:35 +1200
Tiffany Vidal <tiffany.vidal at gmail.com> ?????:
> devtools::install_github("MikkoVihtakari/ggOceanMapsData")
> 
> Error in assign(".popath", popath, .BaseNamespaceEnv) :
> cannot change value of locked binding for '.popath'
> Calls: local ... eval.parent -> eval -> eval -> eval -> eval
-> assign
A full output of traceback() just after the error could be very useful
here. This error message might indicate a bug in devtools or its
dependencies (perhaps remotes). I don't know if the developers of
remotes or devtools lurk here, but it should be possible to reach them
at GitHub: https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/issues

You could also check whether devtools or the package itself is to blame
by downloading the code (either using git clone or by downloading the
zip archive of the head of the master branch), then running R CMD build
and R CMD INSTALL on the contents.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan