cannot install packages from github - uninterpretable error message

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I cannot install any R packages from Github, though I've done this several times before. I've tried this with both R Versions 3.5.0 and 3.5.1.

Attempting to install "https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown/bookdown-master.zip" using:

devtools::install_github('rstudio/bookdown')
githubinstall::githubinstall("bookdown")

or downloading and trying to load locally...

install_local("/Users/Brian/Documents/bookdown-master.zip")

always gives me the error message

Error in readLines(f) : 
(converted from warning) incomplete final line found on '/Users/Brian/.Rprofile'

I've tried other workarounds, as well, but all roads seem to lead to this error message, and I can't find anything that would tell me what it relates to.

Any ideas?

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1 Answers

The error was the result of a previous edit that I had made to .Rprofile while creating a website with the blogdown package. I didn't remember doing this, but clearly it was interfering with package downloads.

After running file.edit(".Rprofile"), deleting the single line it contained, and then restarting R, packages are installing again.

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