R Installing rCharts on R 3.4.2 x64

Question

I had a little bit of trouble installing rCharts for R version 3.2.1. I have referenced a question that addresses an earlier version of R, but the solution did not work for me exactly. [Link]

It would appear that there wasn't a rCharts package for R that can be installed using the install.packages() command

Updated for 3.2.2 x64

Updated for 3.4.2 x64

Answer 1

I hope my way helps.

install.packages("devtools")
install.packages("Rcpp")
library(devtools)
library(Rcpp)
install_github('ramnathv/rCharts', force= TRUE)

I have tested this method on a clean install of R 3.4.2 x64.

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[Workspace loaded from ~/.RData]

> install.packages("devtools")
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib/PACKAGES.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/frank/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/PACKAGES.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/devtools_1.13.3.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 443924 bytes (433 KB)
downloaded 433 KB

package ‘devtools’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
    C:\Users\frank\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpEJRBVY\downloaded_packages
> install.packages("Rcpp")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/frank/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/Rcpp_0.12.13.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 4353971 bytes (4.2 MB)
downloaded 4.2 MB

package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
    C:\Users\frank\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpEJRBVY\downloaded_packages
> library(devtools)
> library(Rcpp)
> install_github('ramnathv/rCharts')
Skipping install of 'rCharts' from a github remote, the SHA1 (479a4f98) has not changed since last install.
  Use `force = TRUE` to force installation
> install.packages("devtools")
Error in install.packages : Updating loaded packages
> install.packages("Rcpp")
Error in install.packages : Updating loaded packages
> library(devtools)
> library(Rcpp)
> install_github('ramnathv/rCharts', force= TRUE)
Downloading GitHub repo ramnathv/rCharts@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/ramnathv/rCharts/zipball/master

Restarting R session...

> install.packages("devtools")
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib/PACKAGES.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/frank/Documents/R/win-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/PACKAGES.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/devtools_1.13.3.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 443924 bytes (433 KB)
downloaded 433 KB

package ‘devtools’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
    C:\Users\frank\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSWkVr\downloaded_packages
> library(devtools)
> library(Rcpp)
> install_github('ramnathv/rCharts', force= TRUE)
Downloading GitHub repo ramnathv/rCharts@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/ramnathv/rCharts/zipball/master
Installing rCharts
"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.2/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  "C:/Users/frank/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpiSWkVr/devtools3ff09fd3b8/ramnathv-rCharts-479a4f9"  \
  --library="C:/Users/frank/Documents/R/win-library/3.4" --install-tests 

* installing *source* package 'rCharts' ...
** R
** demo
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** arch - i386
*** arch - x64
* DONE (rCharts)

Answer 2

The first answer did not work for me. But try this one:

Download the package from https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts as zip file and expand it to

"C:\rchartsdownload"

Then, install the following packages:

install.packages("devtools")
install.packages("Rcpp")
install.packages("RCurl")
install.packages("RJSONIO")
library(devtools)
library(Rcpp)
library(RCurl)
library(RJSONIO)

and finally:

install.packages("C:/rchartsdownload", repos = NULL, type="source")