search

dhopp1 / nowcastLSTM

R wrapper for nowcast_lstm Python library. Long short-term memory neural networks for economic nowcasting.
12 stars 7 forks source link

Failure to update to v0.2.0 #9

Closed JRSlotman closed 1 year ago

JRSlotman commented 2 years ago

Hi Daniel,

I tried updating the nowcastLSTM package to the latest version using the install_github command. However, packageVersion("nowcastLSTM") gives [1] ‘0.0.0.0’. As a consequence, the new functions like hyperparameter tuning and variable selection are not found.

Specifying the release with install_github("dhopp1/nowcastLSTM@v0.2.0") gives the following error Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, : cannot open URL 'https://api.github.com/repos/dhopp1/nowcastLSTM/tarball/v0.2.0'

Updating the Python package through py_install(conda=miniconda_path(), "nowcast-lstm", pip=TRUE) gives Requirement already satisfied: nowcast-lstm in c:\users\julian.slotman\appdata\local\r-miniconda\lib\site-packages (0.2.1).

What to do?

JRSlotman commented 1 year ago

I finally managed to update and use the new functions by installing Rtools and reinstalling the nowcastLSTM package. Strangely, the command packageVersion("nowcastLSTM") still gives [1] ‘0.0.0.0’ but at least I can use the new functions now.

dhopp1 commented 1 year ago

Sorry I missed this the first time, the initial failure was because there is no 0.2.0 for the R version. I don't version the R wrapper, only the Python package. The R wrapper is backwards compatible with older versions of the Python package. Any time the Python package is updated, you need to update your Python package, then rerun the install_github command for R. I should make this clearer in the README for nowcastLSTM