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On August 8, 2014 1:29:14 PM PDT, James Holland <holland.ag...@gmail.com> 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. > >I then ran > >#-----------------Start code-------------------# > >install.packages("C:/Users/jholland/Downloads/glassbox.zip", >repos=NULL, >type="source") > >#-----------------------------------------------------# > >The output message said > >Installing package into >���C:/Users/jholland/Documents/R/win-library/3.0��� >(as ���lib��� is unspecified) > >> library(glassbox) >Error in library(glassbox) : ���glassbox��� 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]] > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.