package ‘slidify’ not available as a binary package for R version 3.1.3

4
votes

This what happen when i try to install slidify package

install.packages("slidify") Installing package into ‘C:/Users/user pc/Documents/R/win-library/3.1’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning message: package ‘slidify’ is not available (as a binary package for R version 3.1.3)

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It doesn't exist on CRAN; only GitHub. Use library(devtools); install_github('ramnathv/slidify', ref = 'dev'); install_github('ramnathv/slidifyLibraries', ref = 'dev') – Tyler Rinker

1 Answers

3
votes

The following steps worked for me

  1. Use this commands Check if you have 'devtools' installed or not :

    is.installed <- function(mypkg) is.element(mypkg, installed.packages()[,1])
is.installed('devtools')

    if it prints 'true' go to step 2 else you have to install devtools , use the following to install it 

    install.packages("devtools")

    after successfully installation go to step 2

  2. Install 'slidify' from github with the following commands 

    library(devtools);
install_github('ramnathv/slidify', ref = 'dev');

  3. To check if is was installed successfully, use 

    is.installed('slidify')