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1. Follow the instructions to install the current production version of the R client, this will automatically install most dependencies 

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   SYNR:How to install the Synapse R Client SYNR:How to install the Synapse R Client

2. Install any additional required dependences, from the R prompt
   • install.packages(c("RUnit","rJava"))
3. Install the developer tools needed for R Developer Tools#R
4. Make sure your maven settings file is pointing to the 64bit version of R

   • Mac OSX

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     <properties> <local.r.path>/usr/bin/r</local.r.path> ... </properties>

   • Windows

     Code Block
     <properties> <local.r.path>C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.0\bin\x64\R.exe</local.r.path> ... </properties>

5. You now need to checkout and build the entire Synapse code tree since the R client now depends upon the Java client, Get the Maven Build working
6. Build the Sage Bionetworks R package, from the shell
   • Rcmd INSTALL rSynapseClient
7. If you see a loading error for rJava, include $JAVA_HOME$/jre/bin/server in your PATH.
8. Now you are ready to use it, from the R prompt
   • library (synapseClient)

Note that every time you change the Java Synapse Client and want to pick up those changes in the R client, you'll need to do an mvn install in each.

How to run the R client against staging

synSetEndpoints('https://repo-staging.prod.sagebase.org/repo/v1',
                'https://auth-staging.prod.sagebase.org/auth/v1',
                'https://file-staging.prod.sagebase.org/file/v1', 
                'https://staging.synapse.org/')

How to run the R unit tests

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