[R-sig-ME] Problem installing glmmTMB

[Ebhodaghe Faith]

Many thanks, Victor and Ben.

I have now successfully installed the package following your instructions.

Regards,
Faith

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, 7:34 p.m. Ben Bolker, <bbolker using gmail.com> wrote:

>    Yes.  A few comments:
>
> 1.
>
> remotes::install_github("glmmTMB/glmmTMB/glmmTMB")
>
> is a little bit better (the 'remotes' package has fewer dependencies,
> and this version uses plain quotes rather than "fancy" quotes (“”) which
> are likely to confuse R.
>
> 2. glmmTMB has been *temporarily* removed from CRAN, which would explain
> why you can't install it even for the latest version of R - we've
> submitted a new version and hope it will be restored soon (fingers
> crossed), although it will take a few more days for the Windows & MacOS
> binaries to be restored even if it gets back today
>
> 3. In order to install from source you will need to have development
> tools (compilers etc.) installed. We might be able to provide binaries
> (see http://glmmtmb.github.io/glmmTMB/ ), but almost certainly not for
> older versions of R ...
>
>    cheers
>     Ben Bolker
>
>
>
>
> On 7/14/21 11:41 AM, Victor Oribamise wrote:
> > You can install using devtools
> >
> > devtools::install_github(“glmmTMB/glmmTMB/glmmTMB”)
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:39 AM Ebhodaghe Faith <
> ebhodaghefaith using gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I have made several attempts to install the glmmTMB package in R, but
> keep
> >> getting the response 'glmmTMB is not available (for R version 3.3.2)'. I
> >> tried using other versions of R (3.5.2, 3.5.3, & 4.1.0) but without
> >> success. Could someone please kindly help diagnose the cause?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Faith
> >>
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