installing ShinyDash with Shiny Server

[Guiui21]

Hi,

I'm trying to download ShinyDash on my shiny server on CentOS. My problem is that with shiny server I have to install the package with root privilege so I have to do it through the terminal. When I do that, I get this error:

Error in contrib.url(repos, type) :
trying to use CRAN without setting a mirror

What should I do ?

Thanks.

[midraed]

Try specifying a repo before with options():

options("repos"="http://cran.us.r-project.org") 
# and them:
 install.packages("devtools")

[Guiui21]

Yes but my problem is on installing ShinyDash and not devtools. I can install devtools with no problem but when i do sudo R -e "devtools::install_github("ShinyDash", "trestletech")", it doesn't work

[Guiui21]

I have this problem for several packages from github

[midraed]

ShinyDash depends on shiny and XML, can you verify you have them installed?

Also, can you try running a R console in your server, and running the command devtools::install_github("ShinyDash", "trestletech") from the console?

[Guiui21]

So, I have shiny and XML installed.
And when I run that code in my R console it works fine.
But still not working on my terminal.

[Guiui21]

I take it back, I didn't have XML install correctly. Thank you !

[midraed]

Excellent! @trestletech can close this now!

[James816322]

I have a question that when I run the command that
devtools::install_github("ShinyDash", "trestletech"),
it cannot works and the error is
Error in parse_repo_spec(repo) : Invalid git repo specification: 'ShinyDash',
I don't know why,Could you give me some advice?

[tasukuigarashi]

@James816322 The following code would work:

devtools::install_github("trestletech/ShinyDash")