Installation

[squishan]

when running devtools::install_github("fcbarbi/ardl") I encountered the following error message

Downloading GitHub repo fcbarbi/ardl@master from URL https://api.github.com/repos/fcbarbi/ardl/zipball/master Installing ardl "C:/Users/squirsa/AppData/Local/R/R-33~1.0/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL \ "C:/Users/squirsa/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpoxuGW4/devtools1e3057c4771f/fcbarbi-ardl-d53229e" --library="\USDALHOME01/squirsa/My Documents/R/win-library/3.3" \ --install-tests

• installing source package 'ardl' ... * R * data * inst Warning in file.create(to[okay]) : cannot create file '\USDALHOME01/squirsa/My Documents/R/win-library/3.3/ardl/CITATION', reason 'No such file or directory' * preparing package for lazy loading \ help * installing help indices * building package indices * installing vignettes \ testing if installed package can be loaded * arch - i386 Warning in library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE) : no library trees found in 'lib.loc' Error: loading failed Execution halted *\ arch - x64 Warning in library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE) : no library trees found in 'lib.loc' Error: loading failed Execution halted ERROR: loading failed for 'i386', 'x64'
• removing '\USDALHOME01/squirsa/My Documents/R/win-library/3.3/ardl' Error: Command failed (1)

[fcbarbi]

It seems that Windows can't find a directory so you could try a manual install:

1. Download from https://github.com/fcbarbi/ardl the file ardl-master.zip and save in a known directory like D:\temp.
2. Unzip it and rename the directory from ardl-master to ardl so now you have all the package files in the directory D:\temp\ardl.
3. From inside R run the command install.packages("D:/temp/ardl",repos=NULL, type="source") Alternatively, you can do install.packages("D:\\temp\\ardl",repos=NULL, type="source")

[gonlairo]

I have the same problem. When I try to install it manually, it gives me the following error:

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Rodrigo González/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

• installing source package 'ardl' ... Warning in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") : cannot open file 'C:/Users/Rodrigo Gonzalez/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/ardl/DESCRIPTION': No such file or directory Error in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") : no se puede abrir la conexión ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'ardl'
• removing 'C:/Users/Rodrigo González/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/ardl' Warning in install.packages : running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\Rodrigo González\Documents\R\win-library\3.4" "C:/Users/RODRIG~1/DOCUME~1/ardl"' had status 1 Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘C:/Users/RODRIG~1/DOCUME~1/ardl’ had non-zero exit status

If you could help me, I´d be grateful.

[fcbarbi]

Hello Rodrigo, Thank you for your feedback. It looks like it's an access rights problem as it says that it can't write the file 'C:/Users/Rodrigo Gonzalez/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/ardl/DESCRIPTION'. Do you have write access to the directory "C:/Users/Rodrigo González/Documents/R/win-library/3.4" ? You can try to create a simple text file in this directory to check that your user has the rights to do so. Please do something like: 1.cd C:/Users/Rodrigo González/Documents/R/win-library/3.4, 2.mkdir ardl, 3.cd ardl, 4.dir > test.txt. I can only test on Windows on Monday. Fernando

[gonlairo]

I did what you asked and it created the text file correctly so I don´t really know what is happening.

It would be great if you could test that. I will be waiting for your answer.

Thank you.