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devtools install_github fails

I've tried everything I could think of but still can't get this to work. I think it has to do with indentation as it works fine locally(build version). Here is the error I get:

Error in read.dcf(path) : Found continuation line starting ' dplyr(>= 0.7.8), ...' at begin of record.

Sample of my code:

Imports: 
    dplyr(>= 0.7.8),
    caret(>= 6.0-81),
    tidyr(>= 0.8.2),
    reshape2(>= 1.4.3),
    plyr(>= 1.8.4),
    magrittr(>= 1.5)

How I tried to install:

devtools::install_github("https://github.com/Nelson-Gon/manymodelr")

I did get the same earlier and solved it by limiting my description to a single line. Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • The issue has been fixed like this which also worked for me according to: https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/issues/1978

    • Run devtools::install_github("r-lib/remotes")
    • Restart R.
    • Run devtools::install_github("...") for the intended package.