[R] Install a package from OSF

[CALUM POLWART]

I suspect you need to download the file and install it. Perhaps the
extension isn't being added as .zip

download.file(URL, "temp.zip")
install.pacakages("temp.zip", repos=NULL)

Might be possible to pipe that?

On Sun, 28 Sept 2025, 13:54 Shu Fai Cheung, <shufai.cheung using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I would like to let reviewers download and install a package from OSF. It
> is for double-blind review, and so I need to create an anonymized version
> at OSF. I can ask reviewers to download the file and install it locally.
> However, the reviewers may not be familiar with this. Is it possible to do
> this in one function call? For example, something like this, from the help
> of remotes::install_url():
>
> remotes::install_url("https://github.com/hadley/stringr/archive/HEAD.zip")
>
> I tried the following (the link is a fake one, just for illustration):
>
> remotes::install_url("https://osf.io/abcde/download?view_only=abcdefg")
>
> I confirmed in a browser that the link with "/download" added is a
> direct link to download the file created by R CMD build.
>
> However, I got the following error:
>
> Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from URL:
>   Don't know how to decompress files with extension
>
> Is there another way to install a package directly from OSF?
>
> Regards,
> Shu Fai
>
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