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cbail / textnets

R package to perform automated text analysis using network techniques
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Textnets not available for R version 3.6.1 #10

Closed rkapitany closed 5 years ago

rkapitany commented 5 years ago

Hi Chris,

You're textnets tutorial was very clear and, fortunately, exactly what I needed to explore my own dataset. However, I'm encountering a problem. When I try to install textnets, I get the follow message:

package ‘cbail/textnets’ is not available (for R version 3.6.1)

This has been true one one computer running different versions of R (inc. 3.4), and also true on two other computers that were all version 3.6. I've downloaded textnets and tried to install it from a local directory rather than a grab.

I'm afraid I'm not particularly savvy in this regard, but is there a version textnets is available for? Has something happened at the github end?

Thanks in advance,

cbail commented 5 years ago

Hi Rohan:

The package is not on CRAN, so you have to install it you using the install_github() command within the devtools package (this is described in our documentation). All the best!

rkapitany commented 5 years ago

Thank you very much for your prompt response. Somehow I simply wasn't following your instructions correctly, my bad!

Great package, very useful!

fmerhout commented 5 years ago

Hi Rohan, just chiming in here quickly. As Chris mentioned, unfortunately, textnets is not on CRAN yet and compatibility with different versions of R is limited. However, I just tried installing from github on my machine and did not encounter any issues. I am running R version 3.5.3 If you can can install that version of R on your machine, this code should allow you to install textnets:

install.packages("devtools")
library("devtools")
install_github("cbail/textnets")