R: install_github

Question

I am trying to calculate weight of evidence and information value, and found online that R package riv and tomasgreif does the job. Both packages are located on github, so I used the following code:

library(devtools)
install_github("riv","tomasgreif")
library(woe)

But it gives me the following error/warning message:

> install_github("riv","tomasgreif")
Installing github repo riv/master from tomasgreif
Downloading master.zip from https://github.com/tomasgreif/riv/archive/master.zip
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : couldn't connect to host
In addition: Warning message:
In mapCurlOptNames(names(.els), asNames = TRUE) :
  Unrecognized CURL options: writedata

How can I solve this problem? Thank you!

EDIT: I tried to download the file manually. R returned no error, but the package is not found in the list... (I am able to install some other packages saved in the same location with similar code)

> install.packages("~/riv.zip", repos = NULL)
> library("riv")
Error in library("riv") : there is no package called ‘riv’

Answer 1

late solution, but i was able to resolve it via downloading Open Source R from Revolution Analytics, then manually downloaded woe package from git and pasting that directly into library folder of OpenSource R
and loaded it library(woe) it will work

Also based on the same lines will be releasing IV and WOE for python also

Thanks Mahi