Installing manual package problem

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 <istazahn at 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.aggie at 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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