From the course: Tableau and R for Analytics Projects
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Download and install CRAN packages in R
From the course: Tableau and R for Analytics Projects
Download and install CRAN packages in R
- [Instructor] The basic R package you install on your computer comes with a lot of built in algorithms for data analysis, but there are literally thousands of other CRAN packages you can download to extend those capabilities. I use the acronym CRAN, C-R-A-N, and in this case that means Comprehensive R Archive Network. There are mirror locations around the internet where these packages are installed and available for download. So what I need to do is install the package that we are going to use to connect to Tableau which is called Rserve. The command for that is install.packages and then in parentheses and double quotes the name of the package and that's capital R-S-E-R-V-E, Rserve. Close out the double quotes and parentheses and press Enter and we have a list of secure CRAN mirrors. Now if this is the first time you are installing a package from a CRAN server, you might see a couple of dialog boxes. The first dialog…
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