Problems installing packages from GitHub using install_github

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Sean Murphy

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Jun 22, 2015, 2:25:55 AM6/22/15

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I have been getting the below error when attempting to install packages using install_github. rCharts is just one example, I have had the same error with several other packages. Rtools33 is installed along with devtools and all dependencies. My session info follows the error below. Is there anything I am missing in the devtools installation? Are there permissions, or PATH issues that I should consider but have not (RTools is in the system path)...

Scanning path...

ls : c:\Rtools\bin\ls.exe

gcc: c:\Rtools\GCC-46~1.3\bin\gcc.exe

VERSION.txt

Rtools version 3.3.0.1958

Version: 3.3

[1] TRUE

***************************************ERROR MESSAGE******************************************

* installing *source* package 'rCharts' ...

** R

** demo

** inst

** preparing package for lazy loading

** help

*** installing help indices

** building package indices

** testing if installed package can be loaded

*** arch - i386

Warning in library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE) :

there is no package called 'rCharts'

Error: loading failed

Execution halted

*** arch - x64

Warning in library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE) :

there is no package called 'rCharts'

Error: loading failed

Execution halted

ERROR: loading failed for 'i386', 'x64'

* removing '\\XXXX/users$/XXXX/My Documents/R/win-library/3.2/rCharts'

Error: Command failed (1)

*******************************************Session Info*******************************************************

R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18)

Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:

[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252

[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252

[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252

[4] LC_NUMERIC=C

[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:

[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:

[1] devtools_1.8.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

[1] httr_0.6.1 magrittr_1.5 rversions_1.0.1 tools_3.2.1

[5] RCurl_1.95-4.6 curl_0.9 Rcpp_0.11.6 memoise_0.2.1

[9] xml2_0.1.1 stringi_0.4-1 git2r_0.10.1 stringr_1.0.0

[13] digest_0.6.8 bitops_1.0-6

Sean Murphy

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Jun 22, 2015, 10:56:21 PM6/22/15

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I have resolved this issue...

It was a UNC path on a network that was causing the problem. I resolved the issue by changing the UNC path to a path mapped to a drive letter and replacing the UNC path in .libPath() with the drive letter version. More on this issue (where I finally found the answer) may be found here.