Slidify is an R package helps to create
and publish beautiful HTML5 presentations from RMarkdown. Slidify package is
fantastic for creating reproducible presentations.
slidifyLibraries
contains external resources used by Slidify.
rCharts is an
R package to create, customize and publish interactive javascript
visualizations from R using a familiar lattice style plotting interface.
All of these
three packages are created and maintained by Ramnath
Vaidyanathan of McGill University. Since all
these three packages are not on CRAN and needs to be installed from github using the Hadley's devtools package.
library(devtools)
install_github('ramnathv/slidify')
install_github('ramnathv/slidifyLibraries')
install_github('ramnathv/rCharts')
As Ramnath mentioned in one of this
Slidify workshop, While the installation process from github is
relatively painless for Mac/Linux/Ubuntu users, for the windows users it
is not that luck. I have to confess that when I used the above code to install
these packages it caused a chaos for me. Not only that the package was not
installed properly but also some other installed packages were broken!!!
Thiago Silva’s post Installing Slidify on a Windows
Machine has provided his advice on how he successfully made a workaround. I
will give a step by step guide on top of his blog, which I have successfully
installed these 3 packages in window 7 and windows 10 machines.
1.
Download packages zip files
a.
Download slidify zip file from Github
b.
Download slidifyLibraries zip file from Github
c.
Download rCharts zip file from Github
2.
Put zip files into a folder, say, c:/packages
3.
Unzip packages and you will notice that all
packages have a “-master” suffix in the folder name. “-master’ will need to be
removed as below:
4.
Now we will use the build utility from
dvtools package to convert a package source directory into a single bundled
file. If set binary = FALSE, this creates a tar.gz package that can be
installed on any platform, provided they have a full development environment. Now
we will use the below code to build packages:
build("C:/packages/slidify/",
binary=FALSE) # Change C:/packages/ to your folder name
build("C:/packages/slidifyLibraries/",
binary=FALSE) # Change C:/packages/ to your folder name
build("C:/packages/rCharts/",
binary=FALSE) # Change C:/packages/ to your folder name
5.
Once packages are built successfully, we use
the below code or alternatively we can use the RStudio to install these
packages:
a.
R Script code:
# Change C:/packages/ to your folder name
install.packages("C:/packages/slidify_0.5.tar.gz",
repos = NULL, type="source")
# Change C:/packages/ to your folder name
install.packages("C:/packages/slidifyLibraries_0.3.1.tar.gz",
repos = NULL, type="source")
# Change C:/packages/ to your folder name
install.packages("C:/packages/rCharts_0.4.5.tar.gz",
repos = NULL, type="source")
b.
Install from RStudio, go to manu: Tools,
Install Packages… as below:
This has
successfully installed these three packages: sidify, slidifyLibraries, and
rCharts in windows environment.
I hope this
helps and thanks for reading.