Re: [R] modifying a package installed via GitHub

2015-07-20 Thread Stevan Earl
Bob and Charles, Thanks very much for taking the time to write, I greatly appreciate your help. I have been so spoiled by Rstudio for so long that I cannot recall the last time I had to use R CMD install. Although I installed this package from GitHub using devtools, I do not see that an .Rproj exi

Re: [R] modifying a package installed via GitHub

2015-07-20 Thread Charles Determan
You essentially have it but you can just click the 'build and install' button to rebuild on the changes you made. But technically it would still work pushing to your repo and using devtools. On Monday, July 20, 2015, Stevan Earl wrote: > Bob and Charles, > > Thanks very much for taking the time

Re: [R] modifying a package installed via GitHub

2015-07-20 Thread Charles Determan
Steve, You are able to work with a github package the same as any github repo. If you clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git If using RStudio it is simple enough to create a new project in that new directory (if the .Rproj file does not exist, otherwise open that). Once you

Re: [R] modifying a package installed via GitHub

2015-07-18 Thread boB Rudis
You can go to the package directory: cd /some/path/to/package and do R CMD install . from a command-line there. Many github-based packages are also made using RStudio and you can just open the .Rproj file (i.e. load it into R studio) and build the package there which will install it.

[R] modifying a package installed via GitHub

2015-07-17 Thread Steve E.
Hi Folks, I am working with a package installed via GitHub that I would like to modify. However, I am not sure how I would go about loading a 'local' version of the package after I have modified it, and whether that process would including uninstalling the original unmodified package (and, convers