[Basta-users] R version to use for BaSTA?

[Owen R. Jones]

Hi Mark,

I built the attached version from source on my machine running R 4.3.1.
It should work for you. Otherwise, you could build it from source on your own computer.

Here’s how to do that…

You should visit the GitHub site for the package: https://github.com/fercol/BaSTA

To install an R package from the source within a GitHub repository, you'd typically use the `devtools` package in R to install directly from GitHub. However, in this case, the package is contained within a subfolder inside the repository so `devtools::install_github()` won't work as expected.

Here's how you can manually install the package:

1) Download the Folder: Download the specific folder containing the R package (in this case, it is the pkg folder) to your computer.
2) Set Working Directory: In RStudio, navigate to the directory where the package folder resides using setwd().

setwd("/path/to/package_folder/pkg")

3) Install Package: Use `install.packages()` with the `repos = NULL` and `type = "source"` parameters. Set the path as ".", to indicate that you are currently in the package directory (pkg).

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

4) Load Package: Finally, load the installed package using library(BaSTA)

I hope this helps!

Best wishes,
Owen

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Date: Saturday, 21 October 2023 at 02:12
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Subject: [Basta-users] R version to use for BaSTA?

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Hi Fernando,

I just went to upload BaSTA to R for the first time, via the archive as it’s been removed from the CRAN repository. I went for the most recent version (BaSTA_1.9.5.tar.gz<https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/BaSTA/BaSTA_1.9.5.tar.gz>) and got this error message:

Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘BaSTA’ is not available for this version of R

I’m using R 4.3.1 Beagle Scouts. Which version of R should I download to be able to install and use BaSTA? Sorry if the answer is obvious – I’m a fairly new R user.

Thanks,

Mark


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