Installing R
- Run the setup program for R. It has a name like “R-2.x.y-win32.exe”.
- Go to the “Packages” menu within R, choose “Install packages” and install the packages RWinEdt, forecasting and tseries. (You may need some others later, but almost all of my students need at least these.)
- Download the Monash package (don’t unzip it) and install via the “Packages” menu from within R (choose “Install package(s) from local zip files”).
Maintaining your R software
- Subscribe to R-announce by clicking here. You will be told about updates by email.
- New versions can be downloaded from CRAN
#1 by Alain D SOURIAC on November 6th, 2009
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Hi Sir sorry to bother just on equestion
I downloaded version 2.10.0 for windows
i downloaded the packages you suggested + i downloaded a bunch of other ppackages which i think i could need(but really tons of)
QUESTION: do you think downloading too much packages will make the software or my pc slower? Is more better?
thank you
#2 by Rob J Hyndman on November 6th, 2009
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Provided you have plenty of disk space, downloading lots of packages won’t slow things down at all. The packages aren’t loaded at run-time unless you request it.
#3 by Alain D SOURIAC on November 6th, 2009
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and if downloading too much was a mistake how do I uninstall some?
#4 by Rob J Hyndman on November 6th, 2009
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Use the remove.packages() function to uninstall a package. However, unless you are running out of diskspace, I wouldn’t bother.
#5 by Alain D SOURIAC on December 12th, 2009
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Another 2 question if I may (and Many thanks for your answer)
1)
I saw your comparison between Latex and Scientific Word.
I have an Engineering Math Firm that creates model-based decision support systems softwares for businesses, currently mostly manufacturing ones. I use latex but I’m really wondering, since my end product is destined to non-technical staff meaning my formula writings stand mostly on appendix just to prouve the robustness of my work, If scientific word wouldn’t be quite enough for the job? 2)
I also intend to propose a Statistical Process Control system. Knowing the easyness of such product , I was intending to use R to implement calculations.Is R suited for that?
Thank you
#6 by Rob J Hyndman on December 12th, 2009
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Regarding Scientific Word, I know lots of people who use it. I don’t like it because it places severe constraints on what you can do. If you don’t mind the default formatting it is probably ok. Lyx is another possibility that is more flexible than SW while still having a graphical interface, so it may be better for your purposes.
R is well-suited to any data analysis. There is a package for Statistical Process Control called spc.
#7 by Alain D SOURIAC on December 14th, 2009
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Thank you so much Have a great day