Error on installing rCharts in R 3.1.1 (Windows)

Asked Oct 22 '14 at 22:08

Active Oct 23 '14 at 15:43

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Is there a build of rCharts available for R 3.1.1?

I tried 2 methods and both failed:

Method 1:

devtools::install_github('ramnathv/rCharts')
Downloading github repo ramnathv/rCharts@master
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : couldn't connect to host

Method 2: (Manually downloading the package and running install.packages )

install.packages("~/R/win-library/rCharts-master.zip", repos = NULL)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘~/R/win-library/rCharts-master.zip’ is not available (for R version 3.1.1)

Edit: I tried:

library(downloader)
download("https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts/archive/master.tar.gz", "rCharts.tar.gz")
install.packages("rCharts.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

And it works now! Thanks!

edited Oct 23 '14 at 15:43

asked Oct 22 '14 at 22:08

rwn1v

Have you tried install_github on another R package? Sounds like a network permissions issue. – Stedy Oct 22 '14 at 22:31
You might also need to specify `type="source"` for installing from source. – ialm Oct 22 '14 at 23:32
Works for me. I vote on @Stedy's comment that it's a network issue. – Roman Luštrik Oct 23 '14 at 07:51
With method 2, use `devtools::install_local` instead of `install.packages`. – Victorp Oct 23 '14 at 08:16
Glad that you solved it. Please change your edits to a separate answer so that others can find it more easily. – Stedy Oct 24 '14 at 16:49

Error on installing rCharts in R 3.1.1 (Windows)

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