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Commit 1fb1ab5f authored by Laura A DeCicco's avatar Laura A DeCicco
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Updated installation instructions.

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To install the EGRET package:
Include the full path to EGRET_1.2.3.tar.gz to install the package (here is a Windows example, note the direction of the slashes -> /, this is backwards from how Windows typically defines a path ):
install.packages("zoo")
install.packages("C:/RPackages/Statistics/dataRetrieval_1.2.1.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
A Mac example:
install.packages("/Users/userA/RPackages/Statistic/dataRetrieval_1.2.1.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
Another easy way to find and install a package, simply use:
install.packages(file.choose(), repos=NULL, type="source")
And a window will open allowing you to browse to the package.
install.packages("dataRetrieval", repos="http://usgs-r.github.com/EGRET/", type="source")
### Note on updating versions:
Some users have found it necessary to delete the package folders before installing newer versions of either dataRetrieval or EGRET. If you are experiencing an issue after updating a package, trying deleting the package folder, the default location for Windows is something like this:
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/Users/ldecicco/Library/R/2.15/library/dataRetrieval
Then, re-install the package using the directions above. Moving to CRAN should solve this problem.
If you are an experienced R developer, with the devtools package and all associated LaTeX tools installed, the following command will install the working version of the dataRetrieval package directly from gitHub:
library(devtools)
install_github("dataRetrieval", "USGS-R")
Stable releases are archived on the packageBuild branch of this repository: [https://github.com/USGS-R/dataRetrieval/tree/packageBuilds](https://github.com/USGS-R/dataRetrieval/tree/packageBuilds)
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