Using R — Installing Packages. One of the reasons to use R for analysis and visualization is the rich ecosystem of . In most cases, just as with smartphones, “There’s a package for that.” If you want to be efficient you need to embrace other people’s work and in the case of R that means installing packages. In this example (on Ubuntu Linux) we’ll run R as the superuser so that packages will be installed in the default location. We will install the “geonames” package and then show off the new functionality we just added. You can specify the library, repository and a few other options by passing parameters to the install.

Use ? install. packages to learn more. So what extra functionality does this new “geonames” package bring?

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Quick Guide - i386 Mac Mini. Here's a super-condensed guide to installing Ubuntu on the i386 Mini. I wouldn't attempt this unless you are confident you can mount your. Install LAMP Server on Ubuntu? A few complex packages but all (bar linux!) can be installed with one command and then following the on-screen instructions. How to Install Software in Ubuntu. Want to install programs you want, but because you are new to Linux, don't understand how it works? This article will show you how. 4) Binary package compiled with different version of R. Warning message: package . By default, R will install pre-compiled.

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F with few clouds, wind at 0. Just click on the Packages link to see the full list of contributed packages. Packages are listed alphabetically with a short description. Unfortunately, there is no rating system but you can get a quick sense of quality by clicking on a package link and looking at the “Published” date and especially any “Reverse dependencies” listed at the the bottom of a package.

Reading the documentation and looking at the number of releases in the “Old sources” is also very helpful. CRAN also maintains a set of Task Views that identify all the packages associated with a particular task. The maintainers of these views do a generally excellent job of staying on top of their area of interest and giving a detailed summary of which packages do what.

If one of the task views is a perfect match you can have R install every package from that view using the “ctv” package. Yes, “ctv” is a package to automate package installation.

See the section below on “Installing older versions” if you have trouble installing “ctv”. Installing packages. The basics of package installation are given in chapter 6 of R Installation and Administration. There are two ways to do a command line installation of packages: from the R command line and from the shell command line. This will always attempt to install the latest version of packages it knows about. This is useful for some packages when install. CRAN. More information is available with R CMD INSTALL - -help.

To install packages this way you must first download the package source to your local machine. Here is a quick demonstration. However, if your version of R is older (Perhaps you are running R on a webserver with Cent. OS?) then some of the more recent releases of packages will not work and install.

Warning message. In install. At least some of the 2. Perusing the sp archive, we might try installing version 0. May of 2. 00. 9. $ wget http: //cran. Archive/sp/sp. Or  perhaps system administrators or other users have also installed packages. It’s good to know what’s installed and at what version.

This is where the location of the package library comes in handy. If you poke around you will find out that most packages come with a DESCRIPTION file that contains that information. To see all the package versions on our Ubuntu system we could just type.

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All of the fields in DESCRIPTION files are accessible through the installed. Van Helsing 2 Tamil Dubbed Movie Free Download. The following example shows how to access this information programmatically from within R.

Unfortunately, the Net. CDF libraries and include files are not installed in a uniform location across Unix systems. This is a case where we need to pass configuration arguments to R CMD INSTALL. Here is what ended up working on Ubuntu 1.

LTS. sudo R CMD INSTALL - -configure- args=.