Install "textnets" package from github in Binder for R

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Hi! I want to add install an R package named “textnets” which is available at GitHub - cbail/textnets: R package to perform automated text analysis using network techniques in Binder. Can somebody please tell me how to go about it?

I tried adding “apt.txt” file but it did not work.

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Did you try adding the lines listed under Getting Started in your install.R document? These would be the lines to add:

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("cbail/textnets")

See about install.R at:

Update: I tried that myself and it worked.

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I am getting this error:

Installing package into ‘/srv/rlibs’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘textnets’ ...
** using staged installation
** R
** data
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘dplyr’:
 (converted from warning) replacing previous import ‘vctrs::data_frame’ by ‘tibble::data_frame’ when loading ‘dplyr’
Error: package ‘dplyr’ could not be loaded
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘textnets’
* removing ‘/srv/rlibs/textnets’
Error: Failed to install 'textnets' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘/tmp/Rtmpe83mn8/file6383c2684/textnets_0.1.1.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
Execution halted
Removing intermediate container bee349834fc0
The command '/bin/sh -c if [ ! -f /tmp/.preassembled ]; then Rscript install.R; fi' returned a non-zero code: 1

I already tried few times what you suggested but I always got an error. I also tried install.Github.r user/package in install.R file but still got an error.

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It worked at last! I used the following code in my install.R file

install.packages("githubinstall")
library(githubinstall)
githubinstall("textnets")
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I suspect that error about Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘dplyr’: was just trying to say it needed dplyr. Had you installed that already? My install.R inherited Tidyverse installation and so I assume that is why I didn’t encounter that in the build?

I did see stuff about special versions when I ran the library() step to bring textnets into the session.

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If you didn’t change anything else, maybe that githubinstall package does better getting related dependencies. Either way, thanks for posting the lines that worked. it is good to know about a related, slightly different way to install Github-based packages.

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I did not change anything in my install.R file which showed an error earlier but worked fine with githubinstall.

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