Closed Myfanwy closed 8 years ago
@jimhester: Why is devtools attempting to grab a "remote" package that is listed in the Suggests?
Thanks. Could you please try
devtools::install_github("krlmlr/hms@feature/11-covr")
If you confirm this works, I'll merge, and installation without the @
suffix will work.
@jimhester @krlmlr ok, thanks! Will try. I was also running an old version of devtools - but got the same error message after package update.
devtools::install_github("krlmlr/hms@feature/11-covr")
worked!
Just out of curiosity -- does the error also occur with the bleeding-edge version of devtools?
is the bleeding edge version devtools::install_github("hadley/devtools")
? Because if so, I just tried to run that and got the same error I did with covr
:
Downloading GitHub repo hadley/devtools@master from URL https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/devtools/zipball/master Error: Could not find build tools necessary to build devtools
must be my XCode...?
Got it sorted out: It's fixed in https://github.com/hadley/devtools/pull/1067, not merged yet. About time ;-)
I can confirm that this version of devtools doesn't attempt installing covr.
FWIW covr v2 has been merged to master and released to CRAN.
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Hi,
when I ran
devtools::install_github('krlmlr/hms')
, I got the following readout:Downloading GitHub repo krlmlr/hms@master from URL https://api.github.com/repos/krlmlr/hms/zipball/master Installing hms Downloading GitHub repo jimhester/covr@v2 from URL https://api.github.com/repos/jimhester/covr/zipball/v2 Error: Could not find build tools necessary to build covr
I went to his repo page, but I'm not really sure where to start to build covr. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!