Dear Gabor,
the standalone mode is the perfect fix for my issue and I will adapted the
recommended GitHub installation mechanism in the README of my cwbtools package
accordingly. Like this:
Sys.setenv(R_REMOTES_STANDALONE="true")
remotes::install_github("PolMine/cwbtools", ref = "dev")
Thank
Hi, you can use the remotes package (that devtools itself uses under
the hood), and set the R_REMOTES_STANDALONE="true" environment
variable. Then remotes will not use any packages to perform the
downloads and the installations. See more here:
https://github.com/r-lib/remotes#standalone-mode
Gabor
Have you tried setting
R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS=TRUE
I have feeling that is a warning promoted to an error by the remotes package.
Similarly have you tried updating the curl package manually with
install.packages after loading it in an R session?
Best,
Greg.
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Dear colleagues,
using devtools::install_github() is suggested frequently to install the
development version of a package from GitHub.
But there is a nasty scenario on Windows when the package to be installed from
GitHub has curl as a dependency and if a new version of curl or backports is
ava
