[R-pkg-devel] Getting error: Installation failed: Unknown username with my package

5 messages · Duncan Murdoch, Rolf Turner, Gábor Csárdi +1 more

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Mark Sharp

Thu, Jul 12, 2018 8:10 PM #

I had a few week development hiatus with github.com/rmsharp/nprcmanager and when I tried to get a Travis build to work it failed. All of my local builds are working without errors or warnings, but the devtools::install_github(?rmsharp/nprcmanager?) fails with this error message

Downloading GitHub repo rmsharp/nprcmanager at master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/rmsharp/nprcmanager/zipball/master
Installing nprcmanager
Installation failed: Unknown username.

Two other packages of mine, one private rmsharp/renameSurgerySheets, and one public rmsharp/rmsutilityr both install fine.

Does anyone know what I may have broken or how?

Mark
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
Data Scientist and Biomedical Statistical Consultant
7526 Meadow Green St.
San Antonio, TX 78251
mobile: 210-218-2868
rmsharp at me.com

Fri, Jul 13, 2018 4:52 PM #

On 12/07/2018 11:10 PM, R. Mark Sharp wrote:

Github is now a Microsoft property.  Of course things don't work 
properly.  Why would you expect them to work?

Duncan

Rolf Turner

Fri, Jul 13, 2018 4:59 PM #

Fortune nomination!!!

cheers,

Rolf

Technical Editor ANZJS
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276

On 14/07/18 11:52, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12/07/2018 11:10 PM, R. Mark Sharp wrote:
>> I had a few week development hiatus with 
>> github.com/rmsharp/nprcmanager and when I tried to get a Travis build 
>> to work it failed. All of my local builds are working without errors 
>> or warnings, but the devtools::install_github(?rmsharp/nprcmanager?) 
>> fails with this error message
>>
>>
>>> library(devtools)
>>> install_github("rmsharp/nprcmanager")
>> Downloading GitHub repo rmsharp/nprcmanager at master
>> from URL https://api.github.com/repos/rmsharp/nprcmanager/zipball/master
>> Installing nprcmanager
>> Installation failed: Unknown username.
>>
>> Two other packages of mine, one private rmsharp/renameSurgerySheets, 
>> and one public rmsharp/rmsutilityr both install fine.
>>
>> Does anyone know what I may have broken or how?
> 
> Github is now a Microsoft property.? Of course things don't work 
> properly.? Why would you expect them to work?
> 
> Duncan

Fri, Jul 13, 2018 5:17 PM #

Hi Mark,

seems like you have "Remotes: covr" in the DESCRIPTION file, which is
not a valid remote specification:
https://github.com/rmsharp/nprcmanager/blob/f93e4e8056a8602654a94fc8685d9ed722c74db1/DESCRIPTION#L31-L32

If you need the CRAN version of covr, remove the Remotes entry. If you
need the GH version, use r-lib/covr

Gabor

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:41 PM R. Mark Sharp <rmsharp at me.com> wrote:

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Mark Sharp

Fri, Jul 13, 2018 7:30 PM #

Gabor,

You were exactly right. I do not think I would have caught that at all.

I had been going down the wrong path of thinking ?Unknown username? was referring to the way I was referring to my own package.

I am very grateful, but I must add that I got more enjoyment out of Duncan?s quip.

Mark
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
Data Scientist and Biomedical Statistical Consultant
7526 Meadow Green St.
San Antonio, TX 78251
mobile: 210-218-2868
rmsharp at me.com

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