`install_github` fails when package and repository name differ

[david-cortes]

Steps to reproduce:

• Create some R package project with compiled code. Example to use that follows this and the next points: https://github.com/david-cortes/multinomial_probit
• Make the R package have a name with one or more periods (.).
• Upload the R package to a github repository, replacing the periods with underscores (_).
• Try to install the package with remotes::install_github(..., build=TRUE).

Expected behavior: should install the package correctly, just like doing it through R CMD build and R CMD INSTALL does.

Actual behavior: fails to install the package.

To verify that the example package installs correctly, try the following:

git clone https://github.com/david-cortes/multinomial_probit.git
R CMD build multinomial_probit
R CMD INSTALL multinomial.probit*

[gaborcsardi]

What's the actual error that you see?

[david-cortes]

Oh sorry, just realized it was missing the Makevars in the github repository and was thus being compiled with different arguments by remotes than by R CMD.

[gaborcsardi]

was thus being compiled with different arguments by remotes than by R CMD.

That seems unlikely to me, as your example failed for me with R CMD build/INSTALL as well, the same way as with remotes. Maybe you have a ~/.R/Makevars file.

In any case, I am glad you solved the issue.