'Problems with installing packages
I have a problem with installing a package, because I get an error:
Error: unexpected symbol in “install.packages(“install_github(…
I’m using a MacBook Air and my friends who are using Microsoft don’t have this problem.
Solution 1:[1]
There are a few issues here.
First, your code uses curly quotes: “, when you need to use straight quotes: ". This usually occurs because some programs autoreplace straight quotes, but that shouldn’t happen in RStudio or in the R GUI. Where are you writing your code?
Second, install_github() is a command included in the remotes or devtools package. So you would start by installing one of those packages.
install.packages("remotes")
Finally, after installing, you would load remotes, and then use install_github() directly.
library(remotes)
install_github("user/package")
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