Installation:

1. If needed, install R from http://cran.r-project.org/

2. From the R command prompt, install the following packages:

   source('http://depot.sagebase.org/CRAN.R') pkgInstall("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 these packages will be available via Bioconductor or CRAN

3. Also possibly need to install these:

   pkgInstall("RCurl") pkgInstall("rjson") pkgInstall("digest") pkgInstall("RUnit")  

Supported Platforms:

• Windows

• Mac OSX

• 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