Why would I want to have a personal library?

[George Carlisle]

I'm reading the documentations and I was trying to install some of the genetic packages.

but I keep getting this question. Why would I want to have a personal library. I said yes and the installation still failed.

[George Carlisle]

I rebooted my machine and had now problems this time. I do have 2 questions:

1. Can you just change the dialog box to say "Where would you like your personal library?"

2. I read that not all of packages may work. Is there a way to filter the versions that will work with MRO? This bring back images of the Windows Stores where Windows 8 apps ran but Windows 8.1 didn't.

3. Is there a way to install al the packages in one go? The Bioconductor stuff I want to explore all those packages. Having to install all those packages individually would be painful...

On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 5:53:56 PM UTC-4, George Carlisle wrote:

I'm reading the documentations and I was trying to install some of the genetic packages.

[adev...@microsoft.com]

1. Creating a personal library

It's not clear to me why R doesn't create your personal library folder, so I suggest you create this manually.

To do this, create a folder C:/Users/<<USERNAME>>/Documents/R/win-library/3.2

(Remember to substitute your own windows user name for <<YOURNAME>>

Then your package installation should work.

2. There is no inherent reason why all packages won't work with R Open.  I know of one or two exceptions where a package did not play well with the Intel MKL, but we try to work with the package authors when we discover issues like this. Bu this is highly exceptional - I literally know only of two cases where this has ever happened.

3. How to install all packages from a repository was answered at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2169118/installing-all-cran-packages-that-are-not-already-installed

However, you'll have to modify the code to point to BioConductor:

BioC <- "http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc"

available.packages(contriburl = contrib.url(BioC))

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I hope this helps.

Andrie

[George Carlisle]

Hi Andrie,

This helps. I'm new R so I'm just want to give feedback as a pure new user. My background is Matlab so I'm excited to see the possibilities here. I like how fast this editor is. I probably won't be using this in Visual Studio though unless something amazing happens.

George

[George Carlisle]

Are you guys going to great a group in Yammer?

[adev...@microsoft.com]

Hi, George

I don't know your expectation of "something amazing", but the RTVS plugin for visual studio is really something amazing.

You should try it.

https://aka.ms/rtvs-current

Nobody should use the RGui out of choice any more.  Real editors exist. :-)

Andrie

On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 10:53:56 PM UTC+1, George Carlisle wrote: