Cannot install in a vanilla R

[nwolovick]

Doing as the Installation Guide says

if (!require("remotes")) {
  install.packages("remotes")
}
remotes::install_github("jcrodriguez1989/rco")

I got:

$ R

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> if (!require("remotes")) {
+   install.packages("remotes")
+ }
Loading required package: remotes
> remotes::install_github("jcrodriguez1989/rco")
Downloading GitHub repo jcrodriguez1989/rco@master
Running `R CMD build`...
* checking for file ‘/tmp/RtmpcCBXuB/remotes430c1893ba9e/jcrodriguez1989-rco-30e0775/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* preparing ‘rco’:
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building ‘rco_0.1.003.tar.gz’
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Error in i.p(...) : 
  (converted from warning) 'lib = "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"' is not writable

Previously I installed r-cran-remotes in my Debian testing box.

[jcrodriguez1989]

Hi @nwolovick , thanks for your interest in rco. Apparently, you are having issues because you don't have write permission in the default location to install R libraries. If you type in an R terminal:

.libPaths()

It will return the paths in which R will try to install new libraries. If you don't want to install rco as a system-wide library (as root user), you can follow these steps:

1) Make sure you have write permissions to a folder in which you want to install libraries, e.g., ~/local/R_libs/3.5.2 2) From R, once it starts, type

.libPaths("~/local/R_libs/3.5.2")

3) Retry rco installation

If you want this path to be persistently used as default libraries path you can add .libPaths("~/local/R_libs/3.5.2") to your ~/.Rprofile file.

best, Juan Cruz

[nwolovick]

Ok!

mkdir -p ~/local/R_libs/3.5.2

And later

.libPaths("~/local/R_libs/3.5.2")
if (!require("remotes")) {
  install.packages("remotes")
}
remotes::install_github("jcrodriguez1989/rco")

and it worked. Thanks!