Install PythonInR in Mac OS Mojave

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Hello All

I am trying to install PythonInR in Mac OS Mojave.
I have Python 3.6, RStudio Version 1.2.5001, R version 3.6.1.
I tried two different methods.

Method 1: As it is explained in https://bitbucket.org/Floooo/pythoninr/src/master/
install.packages("PythonInR")
require(devtools)
install_bitbucket("Floooo/PythonInR")

When I enter the last command a dialog box popped up with text "Building R package from source requires installation of additional build tools. Do you want to install the additional tools now?." I clicked Yes and installed XCode. Then I restarted everything. However, it is still giving the same error. For some reasons R Studio Can not detect XCode Command line tool. I typed "xcode-select --install" in my Terminal and it says "command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates." I found that this seems to be a common problem for many other people with R Studio. I tried everything suggested, but nothing worked for me. If you have any hint that would greatly help me.

Method 2:
Since the method 1 fails I also tried "http://pythoninr.r-forge.r-project.org/installation/". The it gives me

Warning in install.packages :
package ‘PythonInR’ is not available (as a binary package for R version 3.6.1)

So, I failed both methods. I greatly appreciate if anybody could help me with this.

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You are not supposed to run all those commands, you should either use install.packages("PythonInR") for getting the CRAN version OR devtools::install_bitbucket("Floooo/PythonInR") for getting the development version

Do you get an error message when you run install.packages("PythonInR")?

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Thanks you very much @andresrcs. I just ran install.packages("PythonInR"). The problem solved.

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That's not related to your problem, but if your goal is to run Python from R, then you might have easier time using reticulate package from RStudio.

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