Install masstools

Xiaotao Shen (https://www.shenxt.info/)

Created on 2021-12-04 and updated on 2025-09-04

Source: vignettes/install.Rmd

Install masstools from GitLab

You can just use the or remotes to install masstools.

remotes::install_gitlab("tidymass/masstools", dependencies = TRUE)

During the installation, it will ask if you want to update some packages for few times, just enter enter key to skip it.

Install masstools from GitHub

You can just use the or remotes to install masstools.

remotes::install_github("tidymass/masstools", dependencies = TRUE)

During the installation, it will ask if you want to update some packages for few times, just enter enter key to skip it.

If there is a error like below:

Error: Failed to install 'masstools' from GitHub: HTTP error 403. API rate limit exceeded for 171.66.10.237. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)

Try to resolve it by:

  1. In you R console, type this code:

It will open a page in browser, and create a “New personal access token” and copy it.

  1. Then type this code:
usethis::edit_r_environ()

and then add one line like below:

GITHUB_PAT=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

The GITHUB_PAT should be yours that is created in step 1.

And then restart R session and try again.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Can not install dependent packages raster and Cario

raster is a package in CRAN, try to install it first and then install masstools.

Cario is a package in CRAN, try to install it first and then install masstools.

  1. https://gist.github.com/lohenyumnam/2b127b9c3d1435dc12a33613c44e6308

  2. https://github.com/STAT545-UBC/Discussion/issues/122

Session information 

sessionInfo()
#> R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28 ucrt)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
#> Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 26100)
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> 
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.utf8 
#> [2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.utf8   
#> [3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.utf8
#> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                               
#> [5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.utf8    
#> 
#> time zone: Asia/Shanghai
#> tzcode source: internal
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] digest_0.6.37     desc_1.4.3        R6_2.6.1          fastmap_1.2.0    
#>  [5] xfun_0.52         cachem_1.1.0      knitr_1.50        htmltools_0.5.8.1
#>  [9] rmarkdown_2.29    lifecycle_1.0.4   cli_3.6.5         sass_0.4.10      
#> [13] pkgdown_2.1.3     jquerylib_0.1.4   compiler_4.4.3    rstudioapi_0.17.1
#> [17] tools_4.4.3       bslib_0.9.0       evaluate_1.0.4    yaml_2.3.10      
#> [21] jsonlite_2.0.0    rlang_1.1.6       fs_1.6.6          htmlwidgets_1.6.4