[R-pkg-devel] Getting error: Installation failed: Unknown username with my package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12/07/2018 11:10 PM, R. Mark Sharp wrote:
> I had a few week development hiatus with github.com/rmsharp/nprcmanager and when I tried to get a Travis build to work it failed. All of my local builds are working without errors or warnings, but the devtools::install_github(“rmsharp/nprcmanager”) fails with this error message
> 
> 
>> library(devtools)
>> install_github("rmsharp/nprcmanager")
> Downloading GitHub repo rmsharp/nprcmanager using master
> from URL https://api.github.com/repos/rmsharp/nprcmanager/zipball/master
> Installing nprcmanager
> Installation failed: Unknown username.
> 
> Two other packages of mine, one private rmsharp/renameSurgerySheets, and one public rmsharp/rmsutilityr both install fine.
> 
> Does anyone know what I may have broken or how?

Github is now a Microsoft property.  Of course things don't work 
properly.  Why would you expect them to work?

Duncan