install_R.Rmd

---
title: "R Installation Guide"
author: "Mansun Kuo"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: 
  html_document: 
    toc: yes
---

## R

### Windows

Download and install R base and Rtools.

- https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/base/
- https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/

### Mac

Download R-x.x.x.pkg and install it.

- https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

You may need to install libxml2 with [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/):

```bash
brew install libxml2
```

### Linux

- [Ubuntu](https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html)
- [Red Hat](https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/README)

You may need install some system libraries for our R packages.
Here we only take Ubuntu as example.

Curl:

```bash
sudo apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-dev
```

XML:
```bash
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
```



## RStudio

Download and install RStudio desktop.

- https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/


## Packages

Open R console and execute following code:

```r
pkgs = c("httr", "rvest", "DT", "rmarkdown", "XML", "whisker", "googleVis", "leaflet",
         "jsonlite", "magrittr", "data.table", "RSQLite", "knitr", "stringr")
install.packages(pkgs)
```