This free interactive course covers the basics of R. To create your own packages look at Writing R Extensions (the definitive guide), Leisch's Creating R Packages: A Tutorial, and Rossi's Making R packages Under Windows: A Tutorial. Use the library( package ) function within R to load it for use in the session.At the command prompt, install it using.Download the package of interest as a compressed file.Then use the library( package ) function to load it for use.Choose Install Packages from the Packages menu.(You need to do this once in each session, unless you customize your environment to automatically load it each time.) Copy any installed packages from the old installation. To use the package, invoke the library( package ) command to load it into the current session. To Upgrade your R Environment Uninstall the old version of R.Download and install a package (you only need to do this once).If you only want to update a single package, the best way to do it is using install.packages () again. This can take a while if you haven't done it recently To update everything without any user intervention, use the ask FALSE argument. A complete list of contributed packages is available from CRAN. update.packages () will update all packages in the known libraries interactively. You can expand the types of analyses you do be adding other packages.

Search() # see packages currently loaded Adding Packages Once installed, they have to be loaded into the session to be used.

Others are available for download and installation. The directory where packages are stored is called the library. Packages are collections of R functions, data, and compiled code in a well-defined format.

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