Trying to download 'USAboundaries' from R Archive

Question

I am trying to download the 'USAboundaries' package from the R Archive and am receiving this error:

install.packages(pkgs=pkgFile, type="source", repos=NULL)

Error in getOctD(x, offset, len) : invalid octal digit
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘USAboundaries_0.4.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

There were no dependencies listed in the 'USAboundaries_0.4.0.tar.gz' description.

This is what I have so far:

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/USAboundaries/index.html"
pkgFile <- "USAboundaries_0.4.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url = url, destfile = pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgs=pkgFile, type="source", repos=NULL)

Are you on a windows machine? Try `download.file(url = url, destfile = pkgFile, mode="wb")` — MrFlick, Jul 28 '23 at 19:58
The simplest way to install the latest version is probably `remotes::install_version("USAboundaries", "0.4.0")` — Allan Cameron, Jul 28 '23 at 20:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '23 at 04:47

try this:

pkgFile <- "USAboundaries_0.4.0.tar.gz"

url <- paste0("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/USAboundaries/", pkgFile)
download.file(url = url, destfile = pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgs = pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

Trying to download 'USAboundaries' from R Archive

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