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Installing R

Published on 30 July 2006

Installing R

  1. Run the setup pro­gram for R. It has a name like “R-2.x.y-win32.exe”.
  2. Go to the “Pack­ages” menu within R, choose “Install pack­ages” and install the fore­cast pack­age. (You will need some oth­ers later, but all of my stu­dents need at least this one.)
  3. 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

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  • Alain D SOURIAC

    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

    • http://robjhyndman.com Rob J Hyndman

      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.

  • Alain D SOURIAC

    and if down­load­ing too much was a mis­take how do I unin­stall some?

    • http://robjhyndman.com Rob J Hyndman

      Use the remove.packages() func­tion to unin­stall a pack­age. How­ever, unless you are run­ning out of disk­space, I wouldn’t bother.

  • Alain D SOURIAC

    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 cal​cu​la​tions​.Is R suited for that?
    Thank you

    • http://robjhyndman.com Rob J Hyndman

      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.

  • Alain D SOURIAC

    Thank you so much Have a great day