Installing manual package problem
On Aug 8, 2014, at 1:29 PM, James Holland 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.
Why?
I then ran
#-----------------Start code-------------------#
install.packages("C:/Users/jholland/Downloads/glassbox.zip", repos=NULL,
type="source")
I'm a Mac user but when I look at the directory created by expanding that zip file, it appears ready to just move/drag to the library without further installation. It is, however, not named 'glassbox' but rather 'glassbox-master' so perhaps you forgot to rename it?
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]]
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David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA