[R] R Issues with packages

[Jeff Newmiller]

Github packages are the Wild West of sharing R code... quality varies 
considerably. If you can trigger the error with a CRAN package then please 
share that reproducible example here along with the output of 
sessionInfo(), but if it only occurs with this Github package then perhaps 
you should ask the author of that package to look into it?

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Zack Haney wrote:

> Thanks Jeff
>
> I got the Bioconductor packages installed and tried googling the 65535
> tried some things and still get the same error.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Jeff Newmiller
> <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> You just need to READ the error messages and use Google.
>>
>> Don't try to install tcltk.
>>
>> The other two packages are not available through CRAN... they are Bioconductor packages. (Not supported here... use Google.)
>>
>> And learn to post plain text in the future to avoid scrambling what you thought you sent before we see it. Read the Posting Guide.
>> --
>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
>> On August 18, 2017 7:33:35 AM PDT, Zack Haney <zack.haney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> so I am trying to get my R setup to run this users package. Any help
>>> would
>>> be great THANKS
>>>
>>> devtools::install_github(repo = "dadrivr/ffanalytics")
>>>
>>> I get this
>>>
>>> devtools::install_github(repo = "dadrivr/ffanalytics")
>>> Downloading GitHub repo dadrivr/ffanalytics at master
>>> from URL
>>> https://api.github.com/repos/dadrivr/ffanalytics/zipball/master
>>> Installing ffanalytics
>>> "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file  \
>>>  --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD  \
>>>  INSTALL  \
>>>
>>> "C:/Users/Zack/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpeQRO2q/devtools1cbc9da8e1/dadrivr-ffanalytics-dc81c5a"
>>> \
>>>  --library="C:/Users/Zack/Documents/R/win-library/3.3"  \
>>>  --install-tests
>>>
>>> Installation failed: Command failed (65535)
>>>
>>> I then try installing all dependencies using this code
>>>
>>> install.packages(c("devtools","rstudioapi","shiny","miniUI","data.table","stringr","DT","XML","httr","tcltk","RCurl","Hmisc","readxl","RSelenium"),
>>> dependencies=TRUE, repos=c("http://rstudio.org/_packages",
>>> "http://cran.rstudio.com"))
>>>
>>> That returns this
>>>
>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>  package ?tcltk? is not available (for R version 3.3.3)
>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>  package ?tcltk? is a base package, and should not be updated
>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>  dependencies ?GenomicRanges?, ?Rcompression? are not available
>>> Warning in install.packages :
>>>  unable to access index for repository
>>> http://rstudio.org/_packages/bin/windows/contrib/3.3:
>>> cannot open URL
>>> 'http://rstudio.org/_packages/bin/windows/contrib/3.3/PACKAGES
>>>
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>>>
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