git2r::clone does not recognize SSH addresses in R 3.2.0

[lucacerone]

Hi, I have git2r ‘0.10.1’ installed (it comes out with the new devtools 1.8.0) on a Linux machine.

In R 3.2.0 the function/method git2r::clone does not recognize ssh addresses.

The command:

clone("git@remotehost:/path/to/repository.git", "destdir")

fails with error:

cloning into 'destdir'...
Error in git2r::clone("git@remotehost:/path/to/repository.git", "destdir") : 
Error in 'git2r_clone': Unsupported URL protocol

This doesn't happen in R 3.1.3 (but I might have a different version of git2r there, I can look at it tonight when I am home)

[stewid]

You have to install LibSSH2 before building git2r

library(git2r)
libgit2_features()

#> $threads
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $https
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $ssh
#> [1] TRUE

[lucacerone]

Thanks Stefan! I managed to install it in my linux machine but have no idea
how to do that in Windows.

Can you point me to some resource?

Thanks a lot for your help!
On May 12, 2015 10:27 PM, "Stefan Widgren" notifications@github.com wrote:

You have to install LibSSH2 before building git2r

library(git2r)
libgit2_features()

#> $threads
#> [1] FALSE
#>
#> $https
#> [1] TRUE
#>
#> $ssh
#> [1] TRUE

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[stewid]

Sorry, git2r doesn't support ssh on Windows yet.

[paulrougieux]

See also this StackOverflow question: devtools::install_git Over SSH

After you've installed LibSSH2 you'll need to reinstall the git2r package to enable SSH transport (since it's enabled/disabled during the package build).

[AmeliaMN]

The mac CRAN build of git2r doesn't have this enabled, but you can get it working if you do install.packages("git2r", type = "source")

[AmeliaMN]

Also make sure you're being intentional about protocol = "ssh" (the default) versus protocol = "https". I usually use https, so that was part of my problem.