r install_github(“timelyportfolio/sunburstR”) proxy and manual install

Question

sessionInfo() R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) Running under: Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 3

I'm having issues installing this package directly from github. Error below. Maybe this is the solution Solution. How to install_github when there is a proxy but where do I find the relevant inputs url="18.91.12.23", port=8080, username="user",password="password". I'm not an expert in R by any means but this install is killing me.

.libPaths("U:/Packages")
 library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("timelyportfolio/sunburstR")
Downloading GitHub repo timelyportfolio/sunburstR@master
Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : 
Couldn't resolve host name

I then try to download the zip file and use the manual R studio install, however this is not working either.

install.packages("~/Packages/sunburstR-master.zip", repos = NULL)
Installing package into ‘U:/Packages’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
library(sunburstR)
Error in library(sunburstR) : there is no package called ‘sunburstR’

The file in the folder and the zip file extracts the folder after I run the install packages but its not working.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Since you have devtools installed already, try installing from source using devtools::install .

Try this:

library(devtools)
install("~/Packages/sunburstR-master.zip")

And see if the install works. Otherwise, you can unzip the package to get the source files and try again

library(devtools)
install("<Path_to_sunburstR>")

Also, since you are working on Windows, make sure you have Rtools installed.