devtools::install_github Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) :

Question

I\'m trying to install a package via devtools::install_github for the first time

l@np350v5c:~$ R --vanilla
> library(devtools)

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Answer 1

If you can't install the appropriate version of libcurl, you can try using the "install_git" function instead of "install_github". For example,

library(devtools)
install_git("https://github.com/hadley/devtools.git")

That worked for me.