Publish Repository from Local to Remote

This lesson is called Publish Repository from Local to Remote, part of the Using Git and GitHub with R course. This lesson is called Publish Repository from Local to Remote, part of the Using Git and GitHub with R course.

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Publish your website project to GitHub using GitHub Desktop or RStudio.

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The Git Tower website has a discussion of where the concept of origin comes from.

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Michael Lai • October 14, 2025

My Rstudio says 'curl_parse_url' is not an exported object from 'namespace:curl' when I typed use_github(). Usethis has been installed and loaded already. What was wrong with the process?

David Keyes Founder • October 14, 2025

Very strange. Can you try reinstalling the {curl} package? After that, try reinstalling the {usethis} package and see if the issue is resolved.

Michael Lai • October 17, 2025

I reinstalled. The same error happened. You can see my screen cap here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H2QzLpwurCeOKjIyHN3hm_VAPcCyXetH/view?usp=sharing Can you help me on this? Otherwise I cannot move ahead...

David Keyes Founder • October 17, 2025

Can you tell me what versions of the {usethis} and {curl} packages you have installed? Here's how you can check.

Michael Lai • October 18, 2025

usethis is 3.2.1 curl is 5.2.1

David Keyes Founder • October 18, 2025

Ok, it seems like you have an old version of curl for some reason. Please try running this:

install.packages('curl', repos = c('https://jeroen.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

You should then have the latest version, which is 6.4.0. Please let me know if this solves the issue for you.

Michael Lai • October 21, 2025

I tried you code, but for some reason the version I managed to install is still 5.2.1 (see the picture below)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10ZQqC5llQVp3p2itMLoELJPk3elt-KTD/view?usp=sharing

It says something like binaray package which I am not sure if it matters. And I still got the same message when I typed use_github()

FYI my Rstudio is build 4.63

David Keyes Founder • October 21, 2025

Ok, let's have you download and install RTools and then try again. If this doesn't work, I'll jump on a quick call with you to get this taken care of.

Michael Lai • October 23, 2025

Hi David, After installing Rtools, I still couldn't manage to install curl is 7.0.1 to RStudio. You can see my screen cap here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1lwuPKJVzTq0Ps03Knw9tBCjjT_ly_GVk I do appreciate if if you could indeed make a Zoom or Google Meet call to help me guide through the problem. Thanks.

Michael Lai • October 23, 2025

Sorry the link above should be this instead:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yflmtC--l9zdTjo8AMPUEJsjJmEp-LxG/view?usp=sharing

David Keyes Founder • October 23, 2025

I'll email you directly

Michael Lai • October 24, 2025

I solved the issue - all it takes is to update R to 4.5.1! The curl automatically becomes 7.0 and use_github() works. Sorry for the hassle, maybe at least you could tell your students that usegithub won't work on R4.2. =)