Installing GitHub release

Source: vignettes/a06_rsyncrosim_install_github.Rmd

Follow these instructions to install the latest rsyncrosim release from GitHub.

  1. Open RStudio (or any R IDE)

  2. Make sure that you do not have another version of the rsyncrosim library loaded in your R session. You can detach a loaded library using the following code:

detach("package:rsyncrosim", unload=TRUE)
  1. Use the install.packages() function to install rsyncrosim from a website URL. Use the following code to install version 1.4.5 from the rsyncrosim GitHub repository:
install.packages("https://github.com/syncrosim/rsyncrosim/releases/download/1.5.0/rsyncrosim_1.5.0.tar.gz", repo=NULL)
  1. You many need to restart your R environment to get rid of any environmental conflicts. You can do this from RStudio using the following code:
.rs.restartR()
  1. Load the rsyncrosim library.
library(rsyncrosim)