Unable to install_gitlab repos within subgroups

[manju-2018]

I am trying to install a package using devtools::install_gitlab , since the repo is created under subgroup I have passed the full path but it errors out saying "Invalid git repo specification: " could you please help me with some guidance here. I have the auth_token for the repo. Kindly confirm is this feature supported in devtools::install_gitlab

This is how I have passed the repo path with the tokens:
RUN Rscript -e "devtools::install_gitlab('${USER_NAME}/data/comp/synth-inference-synthdid', host='https://gitlab.<org>.com', auth_token=${TOKEN}, force=TRUE)"
Thankyou!

[jennybc]

devtools::install_gitlab() is a very thin wrapper around remotes::install_gitlab(), hence I am transferring this issue.

[gaborcsardi]

I suggest you try pak with a git::https://... url, see https://pak.r-lib.org/reference/pak_package_sources.html#packages-in-git-repositories-git-

[ldecicco-USGS]

A follow-up question, I'm also having some recent trouble with Gitlab subgroups - I have a lot of instructions floating around on how to install via "remotes", did I miss the memo that we should be migrating to pak? Basically, I'm having trouble with both remotes and pak (what seems like out of the blue...) and want to open a GH issue - slightly prefer remotes because of the legacy instructions I have, but willing to move to pak if that's where we're heading.