Why would I SVN install rgl from github using install_github?
It was surprising to find install_github
with the message "SVN doesn't seem to be installed on your system", indicating the need for SVN. This followed advice from the known installation question rgl
How to install the latest rgl . I can install it manually, but I didn't understand the post and posted a question in the title.
After some messy investigation, we discovered that this was due to a config line remote
in the package's DESCRIPTION file rgl
that was not needed. This answer is in the comments to the correct answer.
However, we also found that most of the guidance in the original question was outdated and has been changed since then.
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Edited: The Github mirror has been updated, so all the methods listed in How do I install the latest rgl? should be fine. If the server dies again, you can always use
install.packages()
or use SVN.
The method install_github()
no longer requires SVN to be installed.
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You can install from RForge and any other SVN repo using the corresponding SVN option install_github()
. The devtools package has install_svn
, as well as lighter weight alternatives such as remotes packages.
But in all these cases, you still need ... an SVN client to download from the SVN repo. It makes sense.
However, you can only use git to use the read-only mirror that every CRAN package has on GitHub. For rgl, the mirrored GitHub repo is here and I would expect to be successful install_github
against this repo.
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