Install R packages from github downloading master.zip

Question

I probably have some issues in my connectivity (some sort of blocks, dunno) and I can\'t install directly form gitHub

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Answer 1

This answer is just a refined version of my comments. Essentially you can install packages using devtools by unzipping a local zipfile downloaded from github, and then running the install function

install("path/to/unzipped_pkg_zip_file")

The latest dev version of devtools contains an install_local utility function that makes it easy to work directly with local zip files.