Error installing package from github

[jamesguinnip]

Hello,

I first installed compareDF from the CRAN yesterday, and things were great! However, I tried using create_output_table() with output_type = "xlsx" and it wouldn't work. It output an unspecified file type to the working directory and I couldn't get my Windows machine to open the file at all after trying a variety of software.

I noticed the mention of a bug with the CRAN version, so I entered the following to install the package directly from GitHub: devtools::install_github('alexsanjoseph/compareDF')

Unfortunately, I'm getting the following error message (the copied text includes other info from the console after running the above line of code):

Downloading GitHub repo alexsanjoseph/compareDF@master √ checking for file 'C:\Users\jguinnip\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpU31KEH\remotesf34695a6f82\alexsanjoseph-compareDF-9d508d0/DESCRIPTION' (625ms)

• preparing 'compareDF': √ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
• checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
• checking for empty or unneeded directories
• looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
• building 'compareDF_2.0.1.tar.gz'

Installing package into ‘\sunfish/home/jguinnip/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) '\sunfish\home\jguinnip\Documents' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.

• installing source package 'compareDF' ... using staged installation R ** data * moving datasets to lazyload DB byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading Error in findpack(package, lib.loc) : there is no package called 'compareDF' Calls: -> findpack Execution halted ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'compareDF'
• removing '\sunfish/home/jguinnip/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/compareDF' Error: Failed to install 'compareDF' from GitHub: (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/jguinnip/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpU31KEH/filef34311b57c5/compareDF_2.0.1.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status In addition: Warning messages: 1: In untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : skipping pax global extended headers 2: In untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : skipping pax global extended headers

I appreciate any help you can offer. I'm not very savvy on the back end of R (I'm an ecologist that uses R for statistics) so I'm a little confused about what the error is really telling me. I've used install_github() for other packages in the past with no issues, so I'm not sure what is wrong now.

[alexsanjoseph]

I'm not sure what exactly is happening either - because I don't have a windows system with me.

Can you try cloning the repo locally and installing with R CMD INSTALL . from the compareDF folder?

[alexsanjoseph]

I don't know what exactly the issue was, but I've pushed the bugfix to CRAN - this should solve your issue if it still persists!