r - Error installing packages from github

Question

I can't install packages from github:

> install_github('cranvas', 'ggobi', args="--no-multiarch")
Installing github repo(s) cranvas/master from ggobi
Installing cranvas.zip from https://github.com/ggobi/cranvas/archive/master.zip
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : couldn't connect to host

this is my session:

R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

NB: install.packages works as usual, it's just with github the issue. Have some of you ever faced this? Thanks

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I used this and it worked for me

    library(downloader)
    download("https://github.com/ropensci/plotly/archive/master.tar.gz", "plotly.tar.gz")
    install.packages("plotly.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")