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I can't install rChart from Rstudio due to some firewall settings in my company computer, so I wonder if I can install it manually. I know it is possible to do that by using install.packages, but it seems the installation was not successful. Here is what I did:

  1. download the master file from https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts
  2. used the following code to install:

    install.packages('\rCharts-master.zip',destdir = "/R/win-library/3.2",repos = NULL)

  3. load the package library(rCharts-master) and resulted in the following error message:

    Error in library(rCharts - master) : 'package' must be of length 1

Cypress
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  • hi @chinsoon12, I was not really clear in my question. Due to the firewall settings, I can't access github from Rstudio. I tried the `devtool` and it didn't work. – Cypress Apr 06 '16 at 03:08
  • hi @chinsoon12, as I'm using a company laptop, I don't have access to the command prompt. That's why I need a manual solution. – Cypress Apr 06 '16 at 03:18
  • Thank you guys. I actually found the solution from this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17366772/instal-r-packages-from-github-downloading-master-zip – Cypress Apr 06 '16 at 11:02

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rChart is a package on GitHub, try

install.packages("devtools")

library(devtools)

install_github('ramnathv/rCharts')

library(rCharts)

It should work.

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The name of the package you're trying to load is "rCharts", and not "rCharts-master". Try 

library(rCharts)
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  • Hi @andrechalom, I tried that and it returned the following error: `Error in library(rCharts) : ‘rCharts’ is not a valid installed package` – Cypress Apr 06 '16 at 02:54