diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a056805f8bd1f2064553c1ebac7c7c3a4b56f110..a2182ec985dcd2d6097786971f1eb04189675056 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -50,20 +50,8 @@ While the dataRetreival package is in development (and not on CRAN), the followi 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: @@ -72,11 +60,6 @@ the default for a Mac: /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) Background Information