installing revtools

[mlagisz]

Hi Martin, trying to use the package but cannot even install it:

install.packages("revtools") Installing package into ‘/Users/Losia/Library/R/3.3/library’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : package ‘revtools’ is not available (for R version 3.3.3)

Installing form GitHub does not work either:

Error: (converted from warning) dependency ‘slam’ is not available

Could you kindly suggest any workaround (apart on working on some older version of R?) Many thanks, Losia

sessionInfo() R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) Running under: OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

locale: [1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8

attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages: [1] usethis_1.4.0 devtools_2.0.2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] Rcpp_1.0.0 rstudioapi_0.9.0 knitr_1.21 magrittr_1.5 pkgload_1.0.2 R6_2.2.2 rlang_0.3.1 tools_3.3.3 pkgbuild_1.0.2 xfun_0.4 sessioninfo_1.1.1 [12] cli_1.0.1 withr_2.1.2 remotes_2.0.2 yaml_2.1.16 assertthat_0.2.0 digest_0.6.13 rprojroot_1.3-1 crayon_1.3.4 processx_3.2.1 callr_2.0.4 fs_1.2.6
[23] ps_1.3.0 curl_3.3 testthat_2.0.0 glue_1.2.0 memoise_1.1.0 desc_1.2.0 backports_1.1.2 prettyunits_1.0.2

[mjwestgate]

Hi Losia! This looks like a version issue - revtools has only been tested on R v 3.5.0 and above, so it is set to depend on that version or higher (see 'depends' section here). Because you're on R 3.3.3 it won't let you install; I'd recommend updating to the latest version of R (3.6.0) and trying again.

Incidentally I've just pushed some updates to the GitHub version, so if you can install from there you'll get the latest features. I've tested it on my Mac using R 3.5.1 and 3.6.0 without issues but haven't tried it on Windows yet.

[mlagisz]

thanks a lot! It is all good now - had to update computer OS and everything...

[mlagisz]

thanks a lot! It is all good now - had to update computer OS and everything...