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