Error running install_aif360() on Windows 8.1

After I install en load aif360 from Github on my Windows machine, I get an error:
Error: Installing Python packages into a virtualenv is not supported on Windows

[nrkarthikeyan]

@FrieseWoudloper please provide more details. @gdequeiroz ^^^

[FrieseWoudloper]

Executing R.Version() gave me some interesting information

$platform
[1] "x86_64-w64-mingw32"

$arch
[1] "x86_64"

$os
[1] "mingw32"

$system
[1] "x86_64, mingw32"

$status
[1] ""

$major
[1] "4"

$minor
[1] "0.2"

$year
[1] "2020"

$month
[1] "06"

$day
[1] "22"

$`svn rev`
[1] "78730"

$language
[1] "R"

$version.string
[1] "R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)"

$nickname
[1] "Taking Off Again"

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '%USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Local\\r-miniconda\\envs\\r-reticulate\\lib\\site-packages\\aif360\\datasets\\..\\data\\raw\\adult\\adult.data'
To use this class, please download the following files:

	https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/adult/adult.data
	https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/adult/adult.test
	https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/adult/adult.names

and place them, as-is, in the folder:

	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\r-miniconda\envs\r-reticulate\lib\site-packages\aif360\data\raw\adult

I downloaded the adult.* files and put them in the directory mentioned above. I executed the code again:

ad <- adult_dataset()

This time I only got this warning:

WARNING:root:Missing Data: 3620 rows removed from AdultDataset.

So I guess it is working fine now. Could you confirm that?

Upgrading R on my Windows 7 laptop, and installing + running R with administrative privileges didn’t solve the problem on my Windows 8.1 laptop. When I execute the following code:

library(aif360)
install_aif360()

I still get this error:

Error: Installing Python packages into a virtualenv is not supported on Windows

So maybe I should just accept that it is not going to work on my old laptop?