I have a dataset that for some reason requires DESeq (not DESeq2) to load and open. I have DEseq2 already installed and I use it very often, but I need DESeq for this one. I want to download the package manually cause obviously there is no other choice, using this code: install.packages("~/Downloads/DESeq_1.39.0.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

I have this package already downloaded of course:

I'm getting this error, why is it saying no packages specified?

Installing package into '/home/myname/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
Warning: invalid package ‘/home/myname/Downloads/DESeq_1.39.0.tar.gz’
Error: ERROR: no packages specified
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package '/home/myname/Downloads/DESeq_1.39.0.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status

What am I doing wrong? thanks!

Maybe the path was wrong ? You could try to manually select it with install.packages(file.choose(), repos=NULL), it will open your finder