Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of udg/ecoms/RPackage/prerequisites

Timestamp:

Jul 8, 2014 12:10:02 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

juaco

Comment:

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udg/ecoms/RPackage/prerequisites

@@ -6 +6 @@
 
 
-== Linux users
+=== Linux users
 
 To find out if JRE is installed in your machine, and in negative case to get instructions on how to install it, please refer to [http://ice.he.net/~hedden/jrelinux.html this link]
 
 
-== Windows / Mac users
+=== Windows / Mac users
 
 Click on the link below to download the JRE installer and perform the installation procedure by keeping the default installer settings. For Windows users, please be sure that you have downloaded the 32-bit JRE installer as indicated below.
@@ -21 +21 @@
 
 
+= Installing the `rJava` package
+
+[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rJava/index.html rJava] is a R package providing a low-level interface to Java from R. Once Java is installed in your machine, in most cases the following call from R should do the trick:
+
+{{{
+> install.packages(“rJava”)  
+}}}
 
 
+=== Linux users
+
+Linux users can alternatively use the ''apt-get'' choice from the terminal:
+
+{{{
+~$ apt-get install r-cran-rjava
+}}}
+
+(In case of doubts, there is a recent discussion on both choices [http://stackoverflow.com/a/2170103 at this link] that you may find helpful).
+
+You can also find useful information about the installation and configuration of openJDK in [http://askubuntu.com/questions/98319/correct-installation-and-configuration-of-openjdk-and-r this thread] of the Ubuntu forum. 
+
+=== Windows / Mac
+
+Mac OS X comes with Java pre-installed, so everything should ‘just work’.
+
+For Windows 7, you can find some quick advice on how to get up and running with R + rJava [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7019912/using-the-rjava-package-on-win7-64-bit-with-r/7604469#7604469 at this link]