Questions tagged [remotes]

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What is the correct way to handle Remote dependencies for R CMD check?

I'm trying to check a package with a dependency on a private repo stored on github that I'm specifying as a Remotes in the DESCRIPTION file. E.g.: Imports: dplyr, .... Remotes: geebioso/rpackage I've already set the appropriate…
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Install package from github private repo without personal access token

I am trying to install an R package from a GitHub account I currently own and operate. I want to be able to share this R package with other users (i.e. allow them to download) but I want to constrain it to people I approve of. I could do this by…
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Unable to install mimix package on my windows laptop

I am trying to install mimix package by simply typing: install.packages("remotes") remotes::install_github("UCL/mimix") I got this instruction from https://rdrr.io/github/UCL/mimix/. My problem is I get this error message: Error in parse(outFile)…
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remotes::install_bitbucket() stopped working

For many months now, I've been using remotes::install_bitbucket() from a Docker container to download a private Bitbucket repo and install an R package. March 10, it seems to have stopped working with the error: Error : Failed to install 'unknown…
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How to use `remotes::install_gitlab` to install from a branch?

I wanted to install the interp package from the "spline" branch in the Gitlab repository at https://gitlab.aau.at/agebhard/interp . When I select that branch on the web page, the URL changes to https://gitlab.aau.at/agebhard/interp/-/tree/spline . …
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Use `remotes::install_gitlab()` to install custom RMarkdown template package from company hosted GitLab

my company has hosted a private GitLab server, which I'm accessing via VPN from my laptop. I am currently working on some technical reports (repository 1) using RMarkdown and decided to create a template package for my RMarkdown HTML template files…
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install_github(): "system error 267, The directory name is invalid"

I am trying to install package performance development version with devtools but am getting this error: > devtools::install_github("easystats/performance") Downloading GitHub repo easystats/performance@HEAD Error: Failed to install 'performance'…
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remotes::install_github can't find a dependency that is present

Inspired by Miles McBain's drake video, I want to install the fnmate package/RStudio add-in. But remotes::install_github insists that I don't have magrittr, when in fact I do. I use a site library configured in an environment variable, and, to try…
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Git: Difficulty Getting Existing Git Repository to Track New Bare Remote Repository

Summary: I'm having difficulty getting an existing local repository to track a new bare remote repository. What I've tried: I've attempted to push my local repo to the new bare repo while setting upstream tracking. Git tells me upstream tracking is…
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Getting tracking information for a Git branch

How can I get tracking information (i.e. remote and branch name) about a specific local Git branch, preferably in one command? There seem to be many ways to do this, e.g. git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name…
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remotes::install_github Error: HTTP error 422. No commit found for SHA: rc-0.3.1

I'm not able to install any package from github. When I tried the following code remotes::install_github('yihui/xaringan', upgrade = TRUE) I got the following message Downloading GitHub repo yihui/xaringan@master Error: HTTP error 422. No commit…
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Installing package dependencies only from binary (not source) using remotes::install_deps or devtools::install_deps

I'm running a Github actions workflow that installs dependencies using remotes::install_deps. However, one of the dependencies was recently updated (curl 5.0.1 -> 5.0.2), and the workflow now fails. The root cause of this is that there is not a…
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Connect to WSL running on Win11 VM via Visual Studio Code tunnel

I have VSCode running on a remote Windows VM, that I use for developing on WSL. When I connect via RDP to the VM, I switch to WSL by choosing it as a remote. I now started using the Tunnel remotes and I set up a tunnel to connect to VSCode on the VM…
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Error: cannot open URL when installing private R package which depends on second private R package

i have two r packages pkg1 and pkg2 hosted on a self-hosted gitlab instance. The packages are located in group1/r-packages. Group1 is a project group. pkg2 depends on pkg1. I want to install pkg2 via devtools::install_gitlab(repo =…
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Issue getting rsDriver to work using RSelenium

I am having an issue with getting a server connection using the rsDriver function using this code: driver <- rsDriver(browser = "chrome", chromever = "111.0.5563.19", port=free_port(),check=F, verbose=T) I get this error: Warning: Could not…
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