Set up R development environment

Jump down to:

• R
• Rtools
• R packages
• Git for Windows
• RStudio (optional)
• Tinn-R Editor (optional)
• packrat (optional)
• gdata (optional)
• ActiveState ActivePerl (optional)

R

• R 3.1.0 32-bit
• Develop and test R code e.g. MRDS and DSM analysis engines
  Build R packages via R CMD
• GNU General Public License

Install:

• Download R
  • R for Windows (32/64 bit) - current release is 3.1.2
  • Previous Releases of R for Windows
  • R-3.1.0 for Windows (32/64 bit)
• Double-click R-3.1.0-win.exe
• For installation path you may want to use one with no spaces e.g. C:\Programs\R\R-3.1.0

Update PATH (optional):

• Select Start => Control Panel
• Enter ‘environment’ in the search box and press RETURN
• Click Edit the system environment variables
• Click Advanced tab
• Click Environment Variables…
• Under User variables select PATH
• Click Edit…
• Add ;C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.0\bin\i386 (or ;C:\Programs\R\R-3.1.0\bin\i386) to end of Variable value, taking care to remove trailing spaces
• Click OK
• Click OK
• Click OK

Create shortcuts (optional):

• Right-click on desktop
• Select New => Shortcut
• In Type the location of the item, enter ‘Rterm’* Click Next
• In Type a name for this shortcut, enter ‘Rterm i386’
• Click Finish
• Double-click Rterm i386

Rtools

• Rtools 3.1
• Utilities for building R packages on Windows
• GNU General Public License v2

Install:

• Download from Building R for Windows
• Double-click .exe e.g. Rtools31.exe
• Under Select Additional Tasks, check Edit the system PATH

R packages

Install the following R packages using install.packages:

• roxygen2
• Tools for auto-generating API documentation

• GNU General Public License 2 and 3

• devtools
• Tools for preparing and creating R packages
• GNU General Public License 2 and 3

• Needs Rtools and roxygen2

• testthat
• Unit testing framework
• MIT license

For example:

install.packages("devtools")
install.packages("roxygen2")
install.packages("testthat")

Install the following R packages for MRDS:

• optimx

• GNU General Public License 2

• Rsolnp
• GNU General Public License 2 and 3

For example:

install.packages("optimx")
install.packages("Rsolnp")

Install the following R packages for DSM:

• ggplot2

• GNU General Public License 2

• statmod

• GNU General Public License 2 and 3

• tweedie

• GNU General Public License 2 and 3

• Distance

• GNU General Public License 2 and 3

• mrds
• GNU General Public License 2 and 3
• You can install this locally during development

For example:

install.packages("ggplot2")
install.packages("statmod")
install.packages("tweedie")
install.packages("Distance")
install.packages("mrds")

Git for Windows

• Git for Windows
• R source code management using Git
• GNU Lesser-GPL

Install:

• Download from above by clicking on Download button
• Double-click .exe e.g. Git-1.9.4-preview20140929.exe
• Git Bash and Git GUI will both be installed

RStudio (optional)

• RStudio
• Edit and run .Rmd R Markdown files e.g. R vignettes on the Distance web site
• GNU Affero General Public License

Install:

• Download from Download RStudio
• Double-click .exe e.g. RStudio-0.98.1062.exe
• Select Destination Folder: C:\Program Files\RStudio (or C:\Programs\RStudio)
• Double-click RStudio

Tinn-R Editor (optional)

• Tinn-R Editor
• Develop and test R code within a GUI
• GNU General Public License

packrat (optional)

• packrat
• R package dependency management
• GNU General Public License 2

Install:

• Start R
• Run:

if (!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rstudio/packrat")

• For more information, see Packrat Reproducible package management for R

gdata (optional)

• gdata
• R data manipulation tools including routines to read data in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
• GNU General Public License 2

ActiveState ActivePerl (optional)

• ActivePerl
• A pre-requisite for gdata above.
• ActiveState Community Edition Software License Agreement