Install R-Package from Github

Question

I am trying to install a package from Github, but it's showing me always the same error:

> install_github("jfpalomeque/Momocs")
Installing github repo Momocs/master from jfpalomeque
Downloading master.zip from https://github.com/jfpalomeque/Momocs/archive/master.zip
Installing package from C:\DOCUME~1\Ged\CONFIG~1\Temp\RtmpE15W58/master.zip
Installing Momocs
"C:/ARCHIV~1/R/R-31~1.0/bin/i386/R" --vanilla CMD INSTALL "C:\Documents and  \
  Settings\Ged\Configuración  \
  local\Temp\RtmpE15W58\devtools5a86536733\Momocs-master"  \
  --library="C:/Archivos de programa/R/R-3.1.0/library" --install-tests 

Warning: invalid package 'C:\Documents and Settings\Ged\Configuración          local\Temp\RtmpE15W58\devtools5a86536733\Momocs-master'
Error: ERROR: no packages specified
Error: Command failed (1)

My sesion:

R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) -- "Spring Dance"
Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

Answer 1

Please make sure you have the newest version of the devtools package. This is 1.5 at the moment.To do so run

install.packages("devtools")

Then you have 3 options:

1:) You can try using different parameter alternatives in the devtools package.

install_github("Momocs",username="jfpalomeque")

2:) Another way is trying to download the zip file and install it with the normal install.packages() function in R with:

install.packages(file_name_and_path, repos = NULL, type="source")

3:) You can also just install it from cran with

install.packages("Momocs") 

as it is the same version and the same author as the github package.

Regards

Answer 2

You may want to try devtools::install_github("vbonhomme/Momocs") instead. As stated before, you need devtools to make it work.

Also, Momocs 1.0.0 is on CRAN so you can simply: install.packages("Momocs").

Have a look to the vignette for a nice entry point into the package. And I'm here to help if required.