Error in installing ‘installr’
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Hi!
Please find the code with error herewith.
> install.packages('installr')
Installing package into ‘/pathToR/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.5’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning message: package ‘installr’ is not available (for R version 3.5.1)
I also tried to install the latest version from GitHub as suggested in https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/installr/versions/0.21.3 and get the following error:
> devtools::install_github('talgalili/installr')
`Downloading GitHub repo talgalili/installr@master
✔ checking for file ‘/scratch/RtmpTYjh1Z/remotes6216e54ed72/talgalili-installr-8e76427/DESCRIPTION’ ...
─ preparing ‘installr’:
✔ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
─ checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
─ checking for empty or unneeded directories
Removed empty directory ‘installr/data’
─ building ‘installr_0.22.0.tar.gz’
Installing package into ‘/pathToR/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
ERROR: Windows-only package
- removing ‘/pathToR/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.5/installr’
Error: Failed to install 'installr' from GitHub:
(converted from warning) installation of package ‘/scratch/RtmpTYjh1Z/file621298d9c93/installr_0.22.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status`
I see that I am trying to install it on a linux platform while the documentation suggests that it is only for Windows OS. I think, it solves the issue. Is there a similar package for Linux users? Thanks!
Sure, thanks! :)