Download rcmdr

Scroll down and look for Rcmdr. Click it then click OK. The download process commences. Give it time, it takes a while. You will see lots things flash on your screen and you will see lines appear in the R Console.

Periodically it will stop and look like it is doing nothing. Just let it cook; it is doing a lot behind the scenes. This could take up to 5 minutes. When it reaches this screen, it is fully installed. Notice the caret prompt. You may be prompted to install additional packages. Click Yes. Toggle navigation. You will see this: Put the following in after the forward caret.

You will be prompted to select a CRAN mirror for use in this session: You will see the following window. Click it then click OK Select the default on this window Yes. After it is through installing close Rgui by clicking the X standard windows close location. Starting R-Commander Open R. This launches R-Commander. In this window, you can begin selecting statistical things to do. Facebook Twitter YouTube Pinterest. The following instructions may be all you need to get started; for more detailed instructions and potential installation issues, see the various sections below.

These instructions assume that you have an active Internet connection. Ocassionally, an R package or packages required by the Rcmdr package fails to be installed and the R Commander can't start. When this happens, there is typically an informative error message about the missing package s. There are two common causes for this problem: 1 The package s in question may be temporarily missing from the CRAN mirror that you used; or 2 the package s may be permanently unavailable for an older version of R.

In the first instance, you can install each missing package directly via the command install. In the second instance, you can install the current version of R always a good idea , and start again.

If you wish to start the R Commander automatically when R starts up, you can add a plain-text "ascii" file named. Rprofile to your home directory, with the following contents:. Be sure to use a plain-text editor to create this file, not a word processor like Word, or, if using a word processor, to save the file as a plain-text file.

If the general installation procedure and installation issues above are insufficient, here is specific information for Windows, Linux, and macOS systems:.

When you first load the Rcmdr package with the command library "Rcmdr" , it will offer to download and install missing dependencies; allow it to do so. If you installed R in Program Files , you may prefer to run R with adminstrator privileges to install packages: Right click the R icon and select "Run as administrator. Under the default "multiple-document interface" MDI , R Commander dialog boxes may not stay on top of the main R window.

In the Startup options screen of the R installer, select Yes customized startup. Then select the SDI single-document interface in preference to the default MDI multiple-document interface ; feel free to make other changes, but you may take all the remaining defaults.

If you install R with the standard MDI, to enable the SDI you can make a copy of the R desktop icon right-click on the icon, drag it to a different location on the desktop, select Copy Here from the context menu.

Right-click the new icon and select Properties. Add --sdi preceded by a space to the Target field on the Shortcut tab of the Properties dialog box. If you wish, change the name of the icon on the General tab e.

Click OK. The easiest way to install the Rcmdr package is to run R as root and issue the command install. On Ubutu systems, in particular, the following procedure should work slightly modified from a suggestion by Ista Zahn :. It is also possible to install R and R packages from the Ubuntu package respository but these are almost always out of date.

When you first load the Rcmdr package with the command library Rcmdr , it will offer to download and install missing dependencies; allow it to do so. These instructions are for R version 3.