Installing older version of devtools in R 2.15 (on glimmer/spark)

[Winston Chang]

Hi everyone -

This has been coming up on this list and off the list, so I thought I'd post this again so that it it's easy to find.

Our beta hosting servers, glimmer and spark, run R 2.15.3. However, the lastest version of devtools,1.2, requires R 3.0. To install the a version of devtools (1.1) that works with R 2.15.3, you can do the following:

download.file('http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/Archive/devtools/devtools_1.1.tar.gz',

  destfile='devtools_1.1.tar.gz')

install.packages('devtools_1.1.tar.gz', type='source', repos=NULL)

unlink('devtools_1.1.tar.gz')

The next version of devtools should roll back the R version requirement; even though devtools 1.2 lists R 3.0 as a version requirement, the code appears to be compatible with R 2.15.3 as well. So hopefully in the future this won't be necessary anymore.

-Winston

[Eli Holmes]

run

install.packages(c("httr", "RCurl", "memoise", "whisker", "evaluate"))

first.  Otherwise won't install if these dependencies are absent.