Trouble installing Choroplethr for R version 3.5.0

Question

I'm not able to install the Choroplethr package.

I've installed the 'devtools' package and the GitHub repo

install_github('arilamstein/choroplethrZip@v1.5.0').  

When I run zip_choropleth() I get error: 'could not find function "zip_choropleth"'.

I tried installing the 'choroplethrZip' package and get error: 'choroplethrZip' is not available (for R version 3.5.0)'.

I'm not sure what else to do or if it is simply not available for my version of R.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

install.packages('devtools')
library('devtools')
install.packages('choroplethrZip')
library('choroplethrZip')
install_github('arilamstein/choroplethrZip@v1.5.0')
zip_choropleth(df,..)

Error:...package 'choroplethrZip' is not available (for R version 3.5.0)

Answer 1

It looks like you already have the devtools package installed. So this is probably the code that you need:

# install choroplethrZip
library(devtools)
install_github('arilamstein/choroplethrZip@v1.5.0')

# load choroplethrZip
library(choroplethrZip)

# create an example map
data(df_pop_zip)
zip_choropleth(df_pop_zip, state_zoom = "new york")

The key point is this: choroplethrZip is not on CRAN. So typing install.packages("choroplethrZip") will never work.