On 09.08.2014 17:40, James Holland wrote:
Thank you all, I didn't know about the install_github function.
Sorry, forgot to switch to plain text
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
If you just want to install the package from github, the easy way is to
first install the devtools package and use the install_github function.
Reason why your former approach did not work:
This is a source package, you need to install source packages via
install.packages(..., type="source")
or from the command line via
R CMD INSTALL package_version.tar.gz
See the R Installation and Administration manual for details.
To build a proper .tar.gz file, do use
R CMD build directory_name
from the command line.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
Best,
Uwe Ligges
Best,
Ista
On Aug 8, 2014 4:21 PM, "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
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