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Installation:
- If needed, install R from http://cran.r-project.org/
From the R command prompt, install the following packages:
Code Block source('http://sagedepot.fhcrcsagebase.org/CRAN.R') pkgInstall(c("synapseClient") # If you plan to use a private SFTP server for hosting data, install the optional Rsftp library: pkgInstall("Rsftp")
At a later date, we anticipate that
this packagethese packages will be available via Bioconductor or CRAN
Optional: We recommend installing RStudio It is an integrated development environment for writing and running R code.Also possibly need to install these:
Code Block pkgInstall("RCurl") pkgInstall("rjson") pkgInstall("digest") pkgInstall("RUnit")
Supported Platforms:
- Windows 32bit
- Windows 64bit
- Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6
- Mac OSX Lion Lion 10.7
- Any Linux/Unix platform will use the source of the package and compile/install as-needed
Common Installation Problems
RCurl package cannot be installed
If you see an error like:
- installing source package ‘RCurl’ ...
- package ‘RCurl’ correctement décompressé et sommes MD5 vérifiées
checking for curl-config... no
Cannot find curl-config
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’
then there are missing dependencies for the RCurl package, upon which the Synapse R client depends. For information on resolving these missing dependencies, please see: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html