Note: Windows users need Rtools and devtools to install this way. In fact general advice is that, if you can avoid using rJava, do. The rJava package is notoriously finicky to install in R, given the quirks of the Mac OS X system, Java, and R. You can also download the dev version via zip ball or tar ball, decompress and run R CMD INSTALL on it, or use the devtools package to install the development version: # Make sure your current packages are up to date There are several R packages that link to or use Java, and so there exists a link between R and Java throught the rJava package. The user can install from CRAN via: install.packages('pacman') We assume you have already installed R ( (R Core Team 2021) and the RStudio IDE ( is not required but recommended, because it makes it easier for an average user to work with R Markdown. For instance the p_load function allows the user to load one or more packages as a more generic substitute for the library or require functions and if the package isn't available locally it will install it for you.
Rprofile to increase workflow by reducing time recalling obscurely named functions, reducing code and integrating functionality of base functions to simultaneously perform multiple actions.įunction names in the pacman package follow the format of p_xxx where 'xxx' is the task the function performs. The pacman package is an R package management tool that combines the functionality of base library related functions into intuitively named functions.
