Installing R Packages

Instructions for beta packages

As of beta packages, the installation should be straightforward with the following instructions.

• The download is a zip file. It can be installed using the R CMD INSTALL command. Alternatively, from an R console you can use install.packages(pkg='c:/path/to/rClr_0.1-xx.zip')

See ?install.packages from the R console for all details and options.

Microsoft Visual C++ runtime

You'll need the Visual C++ 2012 runtime installed (If using a development version, may be the 2013 runtime); you are likely to have it already setup on your computer. Check that you have the file msvcr110.dll (respectively, msvcr120.dll for a development version built with Visual Studio 2013) in your c:\Windows\System32 folder:

As of September 2013 the windows package anyway checks for the presence of this library on load, and gives a link to the present page if not found.

Please get the suitable installer from the Microsoft web site:

• Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012
• Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013

Quick check: running the test suite

A quick way to check the package loads correctly is to run the unit tests with:

library(rClr)
library(testthat)
test_package('rClr')

Note that as of September 2013, not all date-time related issues pass when running with the Mono CLR.