Error in installing ggbiplot

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Hi
I am trying to install ggbiplot from githubb
Three days ago, I did not any anny issues with this. I was able to download and load this library.
After re-installing R and Rstudio, I am getting following messages.
Could you help me please
Thanks
Regards
Rab

library(devtools)
install_github("vqv/ggbiplot")
Downloading GitHub repo vqv/ggbiplot@master
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but is not currently installed.
Please download and install Rtools 3.5 from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/.
√ checking for file 'C:\Users\ar02\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp63ASuz\remotes32f4209263dc\vqv-ggbiplot-7325e88/DESCRIPTION' (5.6s)

  • preparing 'ggbiplot': √ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
  • checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
  • checking for empty or unneeded directories - looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added - building 'ggbiplot_0.55.tar.gz' Installing package into ‘\internal.vic.gov.au/DEDJTR/HomeDirs2/ar02/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) '\internal.vic.gov.au\DEDJTR\HomeDirs2\ar02\Documents' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. ERROR: failed to lock directory '\internal.vic.gov.au/DEDJTR/HomeDirs2/ar02/Documents/R/win-library/3.6' for modifying Try removing '\internal.vic.gov.au/DEDJTR/HomeDirs2/ar02/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/00LOCK-ggbiplot' Error: Failed to install 'ggbiplot' from GitHub: (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/ar02/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp63ASuz/file32f428716b5b/ggbiplot_0.55.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
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Have you tried following this instructions? you need to install Rtools for compiling packages on windows.

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Thanks, Andresrcs
Yes, I have tried this method too.
I have install Rtools and then tried to instal ggbiplot.
I got exactly same error message as before except the message which relate to Rtools.
Regards
Abdur

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Is this the path of a network drive? If so, could you try installing into a local path?

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Hi Adresrcs
Thanks for you help.
As per your advice, I have installed Rtools then used following command to install ggbiplot in local directory

.libPaths( c("C:/Data/R_Package/Library", .libPaths() ) )

Then I used following commands to install ggbiplot

library(devtools)
install_github("vqv/ggbiplot")

It worked OK
:blush:
Abdur

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