I re-zipped it because when I downloaded from GitHub, it had the actual
glassbox folder within the glassbox-master folder, so I zipped that
glassbox folder because my understanding was the install.package function
only works on zipped files.

And it does seem like it installed within my R library (I see the glassbox
folder in there) but the library function doesn't attach the package.

~James


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:50 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> On Aug 8, 2014, at 1:29 PM, James Holland 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.
>
> Why?
>
> >
> > I then ran
> >
> > #-----------------Start code-------------------#
> >
> > install.packages("C:/Users/jholland/Downloads/glassbox.zip", repos=NULL,
> > type="source")
> >
>
> I'm a Mac user but when I look at the directory created by expanding that
> zip file, it appears ready to just move/drag to the library without further
> installation. It is, however, not named 'glassbox' but rather
> 'glassbox-master' so perhaps you forgot to rename it?
>
> >
> > 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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