Add-on packages
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Install required packages
wants <- c("coin")
has <- wants %in% rownames(installed.packages())
if(any(!has)) install.packages(wants[!has])Useful online resources
- Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN): These mirror servers are the primary hosts for contributed R add-on packages
- CRAN Task Views: An organized and maintained list of packages useful for a specific data analysis task (e.g., multivariate statistics or psychometric models)
- BioConductor: A host for add-on packages especially useful for genomic data analysis
- r4stats package overview: A list of popular R packages and how their functionality compares to SPSS/SAS
Install and update add-on packages
Information about installed packages
.libPaths()[1] "/home/dw/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1"
[2] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
[3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library"
[4] "/usr/lib/R/library" installed.packages()
# not shown (very long output)rownames(installed.packages()) [1] "acepack" "AICcmodavg" "binom"
[4] "bitops" "boot" "brew"
[7] "car" "caTools" "class"
[10] "cluster" "codetools" "coin"
[13] "colorspace" "CompQuadForm" "DBI"
[16] "DEoptimR" "DescTools" "devtools"
[19] "dichromat" "digest" "e1071"
[22] "effects" "ellipse" "energy"
[25] "epitools" "evaluate" "expm"
[28] "foreign" "formatR" "Formula"
[31] "gdata" "GGally" "ggplot2"
[34] "glmnet" "GPArotation" "gtable"
[37] "gtools" "hexbin" "highr"
[40] "Hmisc" "htmltools" "httr"
[43] "ICS" "ICSNP" "irr"
[46] "jsonlite" "KernSmooth" "knitr"
[49] "labeling" "latticeExtra" "leaps"
[52] "lme4" "lmtest" "lpSolve"
[55] "manipulate" "markdown" "MASS"
[58] "Matrix" "maxLik" "mediation"
[61] "memoise" "mgcv" "mime"
[64] "minqa" "miscTools" "mlogit"
[67] "mnormt" "modeest" "modeltools"
[70] "multcomp" "multilevel" "munsell"
[73] "mvoutlier" "mvtnorm" "nlme"
[76] "nloptr" "nnet" "nortest"
[79] "ordinal" "pbkrtest" "pcaPP"
[82] "permute" "perturb" "phia"
[85] "plotrix" "pls" "plyr"
[88] "polspline" "polycor" "pracma"
[91] "pROC" "proto" "pscl"
[94] "psych" "quadprog" "QuantPsyc"
[97] "quantreg" "R6" "RColorBrewer"
[100] "Rcpp" "RcppArmadillo" "RcppEigen"
[103] "RCurl" "reshape" "reshape2"
[106] "rgl" "rmarkdown" "rms"
[109] "robCompositions" "robustbase" "rockchalk"
[112] "roxygen2" "rpart" "rrcov"
[115] "RSQLite" "rstudio" "rstudioapi"
[118] "sandwich" "scales" "sets"
[121] "sfsmisc" "sgeostat" "shotGroups"
[124] "sos" "SparseM" "spatial"
[127] "statmod" "stringr" "survey"
[130] "tables" "TH.data" "tseries"
[133] "ucminf" "unmarked" "vegan"
[136] "VGAM" "whisker" "xtable"
[139] "yaml" "zoo" "base"
[142] "boot" "class" "cluster"
[145] "codetools" "compiler" "datasets"
[148] "foreign" "graphics" "grDevices"
[151] "grid" "KernSmooth" "lattice"
[154] "MASS" "Matrix" "methods"
[157] "mgcv" "nlme" "nnet"
[160] "parallel" "rpart" "spatial"
[163] "splines" "stats" "stats4"
[166] "survival" "tcltk" "tools"
[169] "utils" library()
# not shown (opens separate window)Install and remove add-on packages
setRepositories("http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/")
install.packages(c("coin", "car"))
install.packages("coin", repos="http://cran.at.r-project.org/")
update.packages()
# remove.packages("coin")
# not shownSee install_github() from package devtools for installing from GitHub repositories.
Information provided by add-on packages
help(package=coin)
vignette()
vignette("coin_implementation")
# not shown (opens separate window)Use add-on packages
Load add-on package
library() throws an error if the package cannot be found
library(coin)Get a return value TRUE or FALSE that indicates whether package could be loaded
library(coin, logical.return=TRUE)[1] TRUErequire() gives a warning if the package cannot be found
require(doesNotExist)Warning in library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
logical.return = TRUE, : there is no package called 'doesNotExist'Explicitly state which package a function is from - if multiple packages export a function with the same name.
base::mean(c(1, 3, 4))[1] 2.666667Know which packages are currently loaded
sessionInfo()R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] splines methods stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
[8] base
other attached packages:
[1] coin_1.0-24 survival_2.37-7 stringr_0.6.2 knitr_1.9
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] evaluate_0.5.5 formatR_1.0 modeltools_0.2-21 mvtnorm_1.0-2
[5] stats4_3.1.1 tools_3.1.1 search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:coin" "package:survival"
[4] "package:splines" "package:methods" "package:stringr"
[7] "package:knitr" "package:stats" "package:graphics"
[10] "package:grDevices" "package:utils" "package:datasets"
[13] "Autoloads" "package:base" Un-load a package
detach(package:coin)Data sets from add-on packages
data(package="coin")
data(jobsatisfaction, package="coin")
# not shown (opens separate window)Detach (automatically) loaded packages (if possible)
try(detach(package:coin))
try(detach(package:survival))
try(detach(package:splines))Get the article source from GitHub
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