runGitHub Error in seq_len(ns) : argument must be coercible to non-negative integer

[englianhu]

> runGitHub('Coursera-Data-Science-Capstone', 'englianhu', subdir='Natural-Language-Analysis')
Downloading https://github.com/englianhu/Coursera-Data-Science-Capstone/archive/master.tar.gz
-  Error in seq_len(ns) : argument must be coercible to non-negative integer
- In addition: Warning messages:
- 1: In utils::download.file(url, method = method, ...) :
-   downloaded length 755527 != reported length 0
- 2: In max(which(block[1:100] > 0)) :
-   no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

I tried to refer to http://shiny.rstudio.com/tutorial/lesson7/ and apply shiny::runGitHub() but face error. And then I tried to refer below sample to upload a copied set of ui and server files to main repo but doesn't help. Kindly assist? https://github.com/rstudio/shiny_example

[OmaymaS]

Had a similar issue. Any clue?

[cenuno]

I too am experiencing a similar issue.

Here is my code:

devtools::install_github("rstudio/leaflet")

devtools::install_github("ramnathv/rCharts")

install.packages( c( "ggthemes", "shiny", "shinydashboard", "geojsonio"
                    , "magrittr", "scales", "htmltools", "htmlwidgets", "DT"
                    , "dplyr", "stringr", "stringi", "MatchIt", "plotly", "censusapi"
                    , "ggplot2", "igraph", "networkD3", "pander" 
                    ) )

library( shiny )

shiny::runGitHub("USAspendingexplorer/USAspending-explorer")

My error message is as follows:

Downloading https://github.com/USAspendingexplorer/USAspending-explorer/archive/master.tar.gz
Error in seq_len(ns) : argument must be coercible to non-negative integer
In addition: Warning message:
In max(which(block[1:100] > 0)) :
  no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

This is my version of RStudio:

R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

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

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

other attached packages:
[1] shiny_1.0.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.0  R6_2.2.1        htmltools_0.3.6 tools_3.4.0     Rcpp_0.12.11   
[6] digest_0.6.12   xtable_1.8-2    httpuv_1.3.3    mime_0.5   

Thank you for your time!

[cenuno]

UPDATE: @englianhu @OmaymaS

My colleague Stephanie Wilcoxen (https://github.com/swilcoxen) figured out a solution!

When running shiny::runGitHub, the downloading url reads:

https://github.com/USAspendingexplorer/USAspending-explorer/archive/master.tar.gz

By simply copying that character string and replacing it with the ".../master.zip" extension, the following lines of code work :

devtools::install_github("rstudio/leaflet")

devtools::install_github("ramnathv/rCharts")

install.packages( c( "ggthemes", "shiny", "shinydashboard", "geojsonio"
                    , "magrittr", "scales", "htmltools", "htmlwidgets", "DT"
                    , "dplyr", "stringr", "stringi", "MatchIt", "plotly", "censusapi"
                    , "ggplot2", "igraph", "networkD3", "pander" 
                    ) )

library( shiny )

shiny::runUrl("https://github.com/USAspendingexplorer/USAspending-explorer/archive/master.zip")

Notice that the function shiny::runUrl was used in lieu of shiny::runGitHub.

Happy coding!