Trouble installing swirl

[crablady]

I would like to play with swirl but I am having trouble downloading it.

I get the error message pasted below this message

I assume this is due to me not having the path "J:/R-Library/3.0.1" on my system, but I do not know how to fix this/ enter a valid path - are you able to advise. I also tried downloading the swirl-master.zip file and installing that locally but got the following error

Warning in install.packages : package ‘~/R/Packages/swirl-master.zip’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1)

I am working on a university windows 7 pc that with a user log on account, but usually have no problem install and downloading packages. I use R studio (v 0.97.248) with R version 3.0.1

Any advice would be appreciated,

install_github(repo="swirl", username="ncarchedi"

• ) Installing github repo(s) swirl/master from ncarchedi Downloading swirl.zip from https://github.com/ncarchedi/swirl/archive/master.zip Installing package from C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpAnK06N/swirl.zip Installing swirl "C:/PROGRA~2/R/R-30~1.1/bin/i386/R" --vanilla CMD INSTALL \ "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpAnK06N\swirl-master" \ --library="\Tower7/home37/user/R/win-library/3.0" --with-keep.source --install-tests

Warning message: In normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) : path[3]="J:/R-Library/3.0.1": The system cannot find the path specified Warning in normalizePath(path.expand(path), winslash, mustWork) : path[4]="J:/R-Library/3.0.1": The system cannot find the path specified

• installing source package 'swirl' ... * R * inst Warning in file.create(to[okay]) : cannot create file '\Tower7/home3/user/R/win-library/3.0/swirl/Courses/Data_Analysis/Figures/mod1_boxplot.R', reason 'No such file or directory'

[hmenag1]

Hi - I'm having the same issues crablady is having. Please help.

[ncarchedi]

Thanks for letting us know about this. It may have something to do with your university/office network (firewall preventing certain files to be written?) My only recommendation is to try installing on a personal computer and see if that resolves your issue.

Sincerely, Nick

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:42 PM, hmenag1 notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi - I'm having the same issues crablady is having. Please help.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ncarchedi/swirl/issues/24#issuecomment-27457376 .

Nicholas A. Carchedi ScM Student, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 301.802.0573 | nick.carchedi@gmail.com

[hmenag1]

Hi Nick - Thanks for your suggestion. However, I'm on a private 64-bit computer running Windows 8. Below is the error I get after installing devtools. The error I get is displayed below. Thanks again for your help.

install_github(repo="swirl", username="ncarchedi") Installing github repo(s) swirl/master from ncarchedi Downloading swirl.zip from https://github.com/ncarchedi/swirl/archive/master.zip Installing package from C:\Users\HENRIM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpkPNEqe/swirl.zip Installing swirl "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.2/bin/x64/R" --vanilla CMD INSTALL "C:\Users\Henri \ Ménager\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpkPNEqe\swirl-master" --library="C:/Program \ Files/R/R-3.0.2/library" --with-keep.source --install-tests

Warning: invalid package 'C:\Users\Henri Ménager\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpkPNEqe\swirl-master' Error: ERROR: no packages specified Error: Command failed (1)

[ncarchedi]

@hmenag1 - I believe your problem is different from @crablady

Your problem is still a mystery to me, but I searched around online and found this: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues/117

All the way at the bottom of the page, the guy appears to find a solution to the problem, which may be related to your problem. Please locate the file on your computer called Rprofile.site. On my computer, it's in "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.2\etc\Rprofile.site".

Open it with any text editor (Notepad will do just fine) and if there is a line that says setwd("..."), please place a # to the left of it (i.e. comment it out). Save the file and re-try the installation. Please let me know if this works. It's our only hope at the moment.

Thanks, Nick

[AntonioMarRod]

Hi Nick,

Where is setwd("...")?

Thanks

[ncarchedi]

We're going to be putting the next version of swirl on CRAN, which will hopefully eliminate these installation issues. Sorry for the inconvenience.