Install error for rCharts

[hshans]

Hi, I get this error on both 2.1.5 and 3.0.2 package ‘rCharts’ is not available (for R version 3.0.2)

Is there a specific version on which this will work?

Thanks, Harry

[ramnathv]

rCharts is NOT on CRAN, so you can't use install.packages to install it. You will need the devtools package to install it. You can find installation instructions here

[dicenslice]

Hello, I'm having some issues installing the package manually.

First, using the zip file at http://ramnathv.github.io/rCharts/ I get the following:

Warning in install.packages : cannot open compressed file 'ramnathv-rCharts-2c368c8/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory' Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection

Second, the master zip file at https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts does not cause any warnings but require(rCharts) brings this:

Loading required package: rCharts Warning message: In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE, : there is no package called ‘rCharts’

I really look forward to using the great package, so any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

OS: Windows 7 R: 3.0.2 (Rstudio)

[ramnathv]

That is not the zip file to use. It is the zip file for the gh-pages branch, which contains documentation and not the package. Here is the link to the zip file that contains the package.

https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts/archive/master.zip

Alternately, you can directly use devtools to handle the installation for you by running

library(devtools)
install_github("rCharts", "ramnathv")

If you are still having trouble, please copy-paste your sessionInfo() so that I can help debug.

[dicenslice]

Thanks for the reply, I have proxy limitations which I cannot alter due to job conditions, so I get the following error:

install_github('rCharts', 'ramnathv')
Installing github repo rCharts/master from ramnathv
Downloading rCharts.zip from https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts/archive/master.zip
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : couldn't connect to host

my session info:

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Turkish_Turkey.1254  LC_CTYPE=Turkish_Turkey.1254    LC_MONETARY=Turkish_Turkey.1254
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=Turkish_Turkey.1254    

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

other attached packages:
[1] yaml_2.1.10    whisker_0.3-2  RJSONIO_1.0-3  RCurl_1.95-4.1 bitops_1.0-6   devtools_1.4.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] digest_0.6.4   evaluate_0.5.1 httr_0.2       memoise_0.1    parallel_3.0.2 stringr_0.6.2 
[7] tools_3.0.2   

[ramnathv]

Okay. Here is an alternate installation strategy that might work for you. Note that you can manually download the *.tar.gz file if your proxy doesn't allow you to programmatically download it. Let me know if this works for you.

library(downloader)
download("https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts/archive/master.tar.gz", "rCharts.tar.gz")
install.packages("rCharts.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

[dicenslice]

works perfect! Thank you very much for the online realtime help :)

[ramnathv]

Glad it worked. Happy coding :+1:

[jilagan]

Thanks for the alternate install instructions! I was having problems with SSL and install_github.

[ffgama]

i've been the same problem @ramnathv . I did the same steps that @dicenslice but the error launched:

Installing package into ‘/Users/pma014/Library/R/3.1/library’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) During startup - Warning messages: 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C" 4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C" Warning: invalid package 'rCharts.tar.gz' Error: ERROR: no packages specified Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘rCharts.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

:/

[PKBibi]

Hi Ramnathv

no luck either...

Here is the output I get, can you help please? Also not able to install any git hub package with dev tools.

install.packages("rCharts.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") Installing package into ‘C:/Users/PK/Documents/R/win-library/3.2’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Warning in install.packages : running command '"C:/Program Files/R/R-32~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\PK\Documents\R\win-library\3.2" "rCharts.tar.gz"' had status 1 Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘rCharts.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

OS = Windows 7 RStudio Version 0.99.447

[ramnathv]

Can you try this to check if you have the build tools installed on your computer?

library(devtools)
has_devel()

[PKBibi]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Ramnath Vaidyanathan < notifications@github.com> wrote:

library(devtools) has_devel()

Hi Ramnath

Thanks for your rapid response.

Here is the output when I run the 2 commands:

library("devtools", lib.loc="~/R/win-library/3.2") has_devel() "C:/Program Files/R/R-32~1.1/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore CMD \ SHLIB foo.c

'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Error: Command failed (1)

Not sure what it all means....

Kind regards

P. Bibi

[ramnathv]

Okay. That explains it. Follow the instructions in this thread on SO. In short, you need to uninstall R and reinstall it in a root folder like C:\.

[PKBibi]

Yes !

Ramnath you are the man... :)

worked like a charm.

Very much appreciated, thanks for your time and expertise.

Let's keep in touch. https://uk.*linkedin*.com/in/pkentabibi

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Ramnath Vaidyanathan < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Okay. That explains it. Follow the instructions in this thread on SO http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20963942/problems-with-install-bitbucket. In short, you need to uninstall R and reinstall it in a root folder like C:.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ramnathv/rMaps/issues/11#issuecomment-116120567.

Kind regards

P. Bibi

[ramnathv]

Glad to know it worked!

[Alsaxian]

Hi dear ramnathv,

I also got an error message while following your instructions

require(devtools) 
install_github('rCharts', 'ramnathv')

to install rCharts which says

installing source package 'rCharts' ... R demo inst preparing package for lazy loading help installing help indices building package indices testing if installed package can be loaded arch - i386 Warning in library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE) : there is no package called 'rCharts' Erreur : le chargement a échoué Exécution arrêtée

The last means loading failed and execution stopped.

The has_devel() command also reports an error

"C:/PROGRA\~1/R/R-33\~1.0/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD SHLIB foo.c Warning message: l'exécution de la commande 'make -f "C:/PROGRA\~1/R/R-33\~1.0/etc/x64/Makeconf" -f "C:/PROGRA\~1/R/R-33\~1.0/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="foo.dll" WIN=64 TCLBIN=64 OBJECTS="foo.o"' renvoie un statut 127 Error: Command failed (1)

According to what I understand from the previous comments if I'am working on a school terminal and don't have the admin permission to reinstall anything then I can't do much about it?

Thank you in advance,

Alsaxian

[GuoweiYang19891101]

Hi dear ramnathv,

I have tried this code to install rCharts:

require(devtools) install_github('rCharts', 'ramnathv')

It returned me this error:

Error in parse_repo_spec(repo) : Invalid git repo specification: 'rCharts'

Did you know why this happens?

Thank you.

Guowei Yang

[Alsaxian]

这位大神，为什么抄送给我？

Guowei Yang notifications@github.com 于 2019年2月25日周一 下午6:42写道：

Hi dear ramnathv,

I have tried this code to install rCharts:

require(devtools) install_github('rCharts', 'ramnathv')

It returned me this error:

Error in parse_repo_spec(repo) : Invalid git repo specification: 'rCharts'

Did you know why this happens?

Thank you.

Guowei Yang

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[swapna9481]

package is not available (for R version 3.5.2) when i try to install rchart package. but it seems warning message package is not available.

[idoiaguirre]

Hello everyone, I had the same problem as stated above and I was able to solve it by installing the "devtools" package and installing "rCharts" by the "install.github" command:

library("devtools")
install_github("ramnathv/rCharts")

Idoia Aguirre