{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zdk123/SpiecEasi/issues/1","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zdk123/SpiecEasi/issues/1/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zdk123/SpiecEasi/issues/1/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zdk123/SpiecEasi/issues/1/events","html_url":"https://github.com/zdk123/SpiecEasi/issues/1","id":95223607,"number":1,"title":"Installing Spiec-Easi in RStudio ","user":{"login":"gaomrx","id":6380557,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6380557?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx","html_url":"https://github.com/gaomrx","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gaomrx/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-07-15T15:29:43Z","updated_at":"2015-07-15T15:29:43Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Tried installing SpiecEasi in RStudio on a Windows 7 (32-bit) and got the following message  \r\n```R\r\ndevtools::install_github(\"zdk123/SpiecEasi)\r\n```\r\n```R\r\n\r\nInstalling github repo(s) zdk123/SpiecEasi/master from hadley\r\nInstalling zdk123/SpiecEasi.zip from https://github.com/hadley/zdk123/SpiecEasi/zipball\r\nError in file(con, \"wb\") : cannot open the connection\r\nIn addition: Warning message:\r\nIn file(con, \"wb\") :\r\n  cannot open file 'C:\\Users\\gaomrx\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Rtmp8sz4SH/zdk123/SpiecEasi.zip': No such file or directory\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis seems to be a bug in [devtools] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9676281/install-github-returning-error-zip-file-cant-be-opened)\r\n\r\nInstallation works (sort of, still cannot find SpiecEasi package in library) after \r\n```R\r\ndevtools::install_github(\"SpiecEasi\", username = 'zdk123')\r\n```\r\n\r\n```R\r\nInstalling github repo(s) SpiecEasi/master from zdk123\r\nInstalling SpiecEasi.zip from https://github.com/zdk123/SpiecEasi/zipball\r\nInstalling SpiecEasi\r\nInstalling dependencies for SpiecEasi:\r\nVGAM\r\nInstalling package(s) into ‘C:/Users/gaomrx/Documents/R/win-library/2.14’\r\n(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)\r\ntrying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/2.14/VGAM_0.9-0.zip'\r\nContent type 'application/zip' length 4680784 bytes (4.5 Mb)\r\nopened URL\r\ndownloaded 4.5 Mb\r\n\r\npackage ‘VGAM’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked\r\n\r\nThe downloaded packages are in\r\n\tC:\\Users\\gaomrx\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Rtmp8sz4SH\\downloaded_packages\r\n* checking for file 'C:\\Users\\gaomrx\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Rtmp8sz4SH\\zdk123-SpiecEasi-f70271a/DESCRIPTION' ... OK\r\n* preparing 'SpiecEasi':\r\n* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR\r\nRequired fields missing:\r\n  Author Maintainer\r\n\r\nSee the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating R\r\npackages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.\r\n\r\nError: Command failed (1)\r\nIn addition: Warning message:\r\nrunning command '\"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.0/bin/i386/R\" CMD build \"C:\\Users\\gaomrx\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Rtmp8sz4SH\\zdk123-SpiecEasi-f70271a\" --no-manual --no-vignettes' had status 1 \r\n> library(SpiecEasi)\r\nError in library(SpiecEasi) : there is no package called ‘SpiecEasi’\r\n```\r\n\r\nI suggest including the alternate way of installing this package on README\r\n```R\r\ndevtools::install_github(\"zdk123/SpiecEasi)\r\n```\r\n and would like to know why the SpiecEasi package was not findable in the library. Thanks.\r\n"}}