Unable to install [R] package slidify on Windows

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I downloaded ramnathv-slidify-4260813.zip and copied it into C:/Users//Documents/R/win-library/3.5

On Windows 7 64bit machine

In Rstudio with Admin privileges I ran this:

install.packages("~/R/win-library/3.5/ramnathv-slidify-4260813.zip", repos = NULL, type = "win.binary") Installing package into ‘C:/Users//Documents/R/win-library/3.5’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : cannot open compressed file 'ramnathv-slidify-4260813/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection

How can I bypass the Error message above and install 'slidify' successfully on my machine?

thank you

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Is there a reason you aren't installing from GitHub? – NColl
Tried this and the same result:> install.packages("C:/Users/.../Documents/R/win-library/3.5/ramnathv-slidify-4260813.zip", + destdir = '~/R/win-library/3.5/', + lib = '~/R/win-library/', + repos = NULL) Warning in install.packages : cannot open compressed file 'ramnathv-slidify-4260813/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection – analytics-josh
NColl: I do not know how to run commands on GitHub.com I did find one of tutorials like this one: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/githubinstall/vignettes/… I just cnanot figure out where to run these commands so i have been trying via RSTudio thanks – analytics-josh
Ok, you can install packages to r from github using the devtools packagedevtools::install_github('ramnathv/slidify') devtools::install_github('ramnathv/slidifyLibraries') The answer to this question covers installing from GitHub stackoverflow.com/questions/24914510/… – NColl
Managed to install by first downloading 'slidify' and 'slidifyLibraries' gz files and then running: install.packages("C:/Users/.../Downloads/ramnathv-slidify-v0.3.3-154-g1dd41a3.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") install.packages("C:/Users/.../Downloads/slidifyLibraries-master.zip", repos = NULL, type = "win.binary") commands in RStudio – analytics-josh

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Managed to install by first downloading 'slidify' and 'slidifyLibraries' gz files and then running: *install.packages("C:/Users/<...>/Downloads/ramnathv-slidify-v0.3.3-154-g1dd41a3.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

install.packages("C:/Users/<...>/Downloads/slidifyLibraries-master.zip", repos = NULL, type = "win.binary") commands in RStudio

Alternatively, in RStudio this can be done via GUI: click Packages > Install Packages > in Install Packages window select Install from: package archive ... > then Browse to the location you downloaded your file to > click Install.

Thanks