I re-zipped it because when I downloaded from GitHub, it had the actual glassbox folder within the glassbox-master folder, so I zipped that glassbox folder because my understanding was the install.package function only works on zipped files.
And it does seem like it installed within my R library (I see the glassbox folder in there) but the library function doesn't attach the package. ~James On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:50 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Aug 8, 2014, at 1:29 PM, James Holland wrote: > > > Running R 3.03 on Windows 7 > > > > I am trying to install a package from a github repository. > > > > https://github.com/google/glassbox > > > > I downloaded the repository as a zip file, extracted it to get the > glassbox > > folder and re-zipped it with 7-zip. > > Why? > > > > > I then ran > > > > #-----------------Start code-------------------# > > > > install.packages("C:/Users/jholland/Downloads/glassbox.zip", repos=NULL, > > type="source") > > > > I'm a Mac user but when I look at the directory created by expanding that > zip file, it appears ready to just move/drag to the library without further > installation. It is, however, not named 'glassbox' but rather > 'glassbox-master' so perhaps you forgot to rename it? > > > > > The output message said > > > > Installing package into âC:/Users/jholland/Documents/R/win-library/3.0â > > (as âlibâ is unspecified) > > > >> library(glassbox) > > Error in library(glassbox) : âglassboxâ is not a valid installed package > > > > I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. When I look in the R library folder > > (...R/win-library/3.0) I see the glassbox folder there. > > > > > > I'm new to using packages not from the CRAN list so I'm trying to learn > > fast. I tried some searching and this seems to be what I'm suppossed to > > do, but perhaps I need to use dev mode ? > > > > Thank you for the help. > > > > ~James > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > This is a plain text mailing list. > > -- > > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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