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. > > 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 >> >> [[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.