Installation fails: "creating vignettes ... ERROR"

[hmf]

Hello,

Using the latest R version in Linux (Ubuntu). I tried and install the package with:

install_github("knitcitations", "cboettig")

However I get the following output:

Installing github repo knitcitations/master from cboettig
Downloading master.zip from https://github.com/cboettig/knitcitations/archive/master.zip
Installing package from /tmp/RtmphF78uf/master.zip
arguments 'minimized' and 'invisible' are for Windows only
Installing knitcitations
'/usr/lib/R/bin/R' --vanilla CMD build  \
  '/tmp/RtmphF78uf/devtools7af7604a3bc0/knitcitations-master' --no-manual  \
  --no-resave-data 

* checking for file '/tmp/RtmphF78uf/devtools7af7604a3bc0/knitcitations-master/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'knitcitations':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* installing the package to build vignettes
* creating vignettes ... ERROR
Server error for doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-0011.1, you may want to try again.
No results
Quitting from lines 60-83 (tutorial.Rmd) 
Error: processing vignette 'tutorial.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
argument "bibtype" is missing, with no default
Execution halted
Error: Command failed (1)

The link above does exists. The cause I suspect may be due to a proxy. I have tried this with (RStudio) and without (R command line) explicit proxy setting but it does not work. Anyway I can circumvent this?

TIA.

[rmflight]

if you want to install without creating the vignettes, you can do

install_github("knitcitations", "cboettig", quick = TRUE)

the quick argument tells install to skip making the vignettes

[hmf]

Thanks Robert, that did it.

[cboettig]

Yeah, CrossRef API is being fickle all of a sudden, causing vignette not to build, so looking at ways to work around that....

Meanwhile you might get errors when citing by DOI or search terms.

Carl Boettiger http://carlboettiger.info

sent from mobile device; my apologies for any terseness or typos On Aug 7, 2014 5:47 AM, "hmf" notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks Robert, that did it.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/cboettig/knitcitations/issues/64#issuecomment-51466354 .

[cboettig]

CrossRef API seems stable now. CrossRef did confirm some instability earlier this week, so glad to know they're on top of this. knitcitations should be functioning as expected now.

[hmf]

Thanks.