Error on installing rCharts in R 3.1.1 (Windows)

Question

Is there a build of rCharts available for R 3.1.1?

I tried 2 methods and both failed:

Method 1:

devtools::install_github('ramnathv/rCharts')
Downloading github repo ramnathv/rCharts@master
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : couldn't connect to host

Method 2: (Manually downloading the package and running install.packages )

install.packages("~/R/win-library/rCharts-master.zip", repos = NULL)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘~/R/win-library/rCharts-master.zip’ is not available (for R version 3.1.1)

Edit: I tried:

library(downloader)
download("https://github.com/ramnathv/rCharts/archive/master.tar.gz", "rCharts.tar.gz")
install.packages("rCharts.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

And it works now! Thanks!

Lanai

Have you tried install_github on another R package? Sounds like a network permissions issue. – Vahe

You might also need to specify type="source" for installing from source. – Kenwee

Works for me. I vote on @Stedy's comment that it's a network issue. – Colville

With method 2, use devtools::install_local instead of install.packages. – Cardinalate

Glad that you solved it. Please change your edits to a separate answer so that others can find it more easily. – Vahe