[R] Installing manual package problem

[James Holland]

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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