Install castarter

Giorgio Comai

2018-10-07

Preliminary steps

In order to use castarter, you need to install R and, if on Linux, a few dependencies.

On Fedora

sudo dnf install R R-RCurl curl-devel R-zoo R-XML openssl-devel libxml2-devel cairo-devel

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install r-base r-cran-rcurl r-cran-xml libssl-dev libcairo-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev r-cran-slam libxml2-dev

On Windows

Download the latest version of R from R’s official website

Installing a user interface for R

No matter which platform you are using, it is suggested you install a dedicated user interface for R such as RStudio - open source and available for Linux, Windows and Mac.

Installing ‘castarter’

To actually install castarter, you can run these commands inside R: they will install the devtoools package, which allows to install castarter directly from Github.

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("giocomai/castarter")