[R] Installing manual package problem

[Jeff Newmiller]

The obvious suggestion is to not repack the package file.

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On August 8, 2014 1:29:14 PM PDT, 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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