R - Error installing Devtools in Windows

Question

I\'m reasonably new to R, and to stackoverflow, so apologies if I have not provided sufficient detail in my question below. Happy to provide more info if required

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Answer 1

This is information about git2r

The following devtools installation information comes from devtools:

Make sure you have a working development environment.

2. Windows: Install Rtools.

3. Install the release version of devtools from CRAN with install.packages("devtools").

   Windows:

   library(devtools) build_github_devtools()

   Restart R before continuing

   install.packages("devtools.zip", repos = NULL, type = "source")

   Remove the package after installation

   unlink("devtools.zip")