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joachim-gassen / tidycovid19

{tidycovid19}: An R Package to Download, Tidy and Visualize Covid-19 Related Data
https://joachim-gassen.github.io/tidycovid19/
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install_github() does not work. tarball not found #34

Closed jameshunterbr closed 3 years ago

jameshunterbr commented 3 years ago

Cannot seem to download the package as remotes::install_github("joachim-gassen/tidycovid19") does not find the tarball

joachim-gassen commented 3 years ago

Hi there:

Sorry but I cannot reproduce that. Could you please verify that it is was not caused by a temporary network glitch and if you continue to encounter that issue post the complete error message together with the output of devtools::session_info()?

Thanks!

jameshunterbr commented 3 years ago

I've tried it again with both remotes and devtools. Here is the output and the sessionInfo.

remotes::install_github("joachim-gassen/tidycovid19") Downloading GitHub repo joachim-gassen/tidycovid19@HEAD Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, : download from 'https://api.github.com/repos/joachim-gassen/tidycovid19/tarball/HEAD' failed devtools::install_github("joachim-gassen/tidycovid19") Downloading GitHub repo joachim-gassen/tidycovid19@HEAD Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, : download from 'https://api.github.com/repos/joachim-gassen/tidycovid19/tarball/HEAD' failed

devtools::session_info()

  • Session info --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- setting value
    version R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) os Windows 10 x64
    system x86_64, mingw32
    ui RStudio
    language (EN)
    collate English_United States.1252
    ctype English_United States.1252
    tz America/Sao_Paulo
    date 2020-11-25

[1] C:/Users/james/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/4.0 [2] C:/Program Files/R/R-4.0.3/library

joachim-gassen commented 3 years ago

Thank you! While I still cannot reproduce this issue, I have two suggestions.

  1. Can you check whether the following works for you:

    options()$download.file.method
tfile <- tempfile()
file <- utils::download.file('https://api.github.com/repos/joachim-gassen/tidycovid19/tarball/HEAD', tfile)

    Based on the above, it should not. I wonder whether this might be related to your file download method (this is why I included the options call above). You could play around with the method options that are available for your OS. See here for people having similar issues: https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/issues/130.

  2. The obvious question: Do you face similar problems with other Github repos? If not and the above is inconclusive then I can only speculate that the relative large file size (41.7 MB) plays a role.

jameshunterbr commented 3 years ago

Last question first: no, this is the first time I have encountered this with a GitHub repo package. I have downloaded many before.

This is the output I get from your test code:

> options()$download.file.method
NULL
> tfile <- tempfile()
> file <- utils::download.file('https://api.github.com/repos/joachim-gassen/tidycovid19/tarball/HEAD', tfile)
trying URL 'https://api.github.com/repos/joachim-gassen/tidycovid19/tarball/HEAD'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length unknown
downloaded 41.8 MB

> tfile
[1] "C:\\Users\\james\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\RtmpisYPWN\\file110436b01ac8"
>

There is a file in the directory indicated in tfile that is 41.7 MB.

So, something happened. What, I'm not sure.

joachim-gassen commented 3 years ago

So the download works. What confuses me is that your method for downloading files is set to NULL. Normally, on windows, it defaults to:

> options()$download.file.method
[1] "wininet"

However, the install_github code sets the download method to "auto" if the option is set to NULL and this also works in my Windows environment. The last hint that I can give you is to explicitly change the method to "wininet" prior to calling install_github to see whether this helps.

options(download.file.method = "wininet")
remotes::install_github("joachim-gassen/tidycovid19")

Good luck and thanks for letting me (and potential others) know whether it works.

jameshunterbr commented 3 years ago

That was it, Joachim. changing the options to "wininet" made the download successful. Many thanks for the help.