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.
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 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]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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