installing seurat-data with this error msg "Failed to install 'unknown package' from GitHub"

[linpei26]

Hi Seurat Team!

I try to install seurat-data in this way:

devtools::install_github('satijalab/seurat-data')

But it failed with an error msg:

Using GitHub PAT from the git credential store.
Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from GitHub:
HTTP error 401.
Bad credentials

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Could you please take a look and kindly provide some tips?
I am using Rstudio on my Mac, the R version is 4.4.0 while Seurat is 5.1.0.

Thank you!

[hardingoj]

Hello, I am a total novice at this but I believe that you need a Personal Access Token (PAT) to run the install code. Someone else can probably explain better why this is, but I received this same error and fixed it with the following steps:
Runusethis::create_github_token(). This should open a GitHub window in your browser where you can log in and a PAT will be created.
Then run Sys.setenv(GITHUB_PAT = "copy-paste your PAT here")
Finally, run remotes::install_github("satijalab/seurat-data") again and you should be allowed to install the package.
Hope this helps!

[linpei26]

Thank you hardingoj!
It worked.
Cheers!