INSTALLATION MANUAL

FOR R SET-UP ON UBUNTU

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 Steps to be followed
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R Installation
RStudio Installation

Required Packages Installation

Other Settings

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R Installation

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 R Installation Steps
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Open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and give the following

commands:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Whenever prompted for password, enter mnnit
Append the below line at end of the file which is opened:
deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main universe
Save the file and close it
Give the following commands on terminal to install R:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base

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RStudio Installation

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 RStudio Installation Steps
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Check rstudio-1.0.143-amd64.deb file at your home

location.
If not, download RStudio from http://172.31.134.27
and paste it at Home location i.e. /home/mnnit
Type the following command in terminal to install
RStudio and its required libraries:
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-0
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
sudo apt-get install libjpeg62
sudo dpkg -i rstudio-1.0.143-amd64.deb
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Required Packages
Installation

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 Package Installation Steps
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The virtual machine labeled mnnit is for learning

installation process, which can be shut down now.
Now select OS damlr to boot the virtual machine.

Select user damlr and enter password damlr

Open already installed RStudio on the virtual machine.

On RStudio, goto ToolsGlobal Options Packages

and Uncheck below option:
Use secure download method for HTTP
Close and exit from the RStudio
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 Package Installation Steps Contd
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Re-open RStudio and type the following command in R

console to bypass proxy:
Sys.setenv(http_proxy="edcguest:edcguest@172.31.100.14:31
28")
Goto Tools Install Packages...
Type the name of package to be installed in the

opened dialog box

For list of packages to be installed, please refer next
two slides
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 R Packages
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R has lot of packages install as per need

For DAMLR-2017, the following packages are required:
dplyr A grammar of data manipulation
ggplot2 Create elegant Data Visualization using the
grammar of graphics
mice Takes care of missing values
rpart Recursive Partitioning and Regression trees
caret Used for classification and regression training
randomForest Used for Random Forest technique
class Functions for classification
lubridate Make dealing with dates a little easier

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 R Packages Contd
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nnet Used for Neural Network techniques

neuralnet Training of Neural Networks
e1071 Used for Support Vector Machine (SVM) technique
and other statistical techniques like Nave Bayes
kernlab Used for Kernel based machine learning techniques
ISLR Data for An Introduction to Statistical Learning with
Applications in R
genalg R based genetic algorithm
lpSolve Interface to LP_solve v 5.5 to solve Linear/Integer
Programs
lpSolveAPI R Interface to Ip_solve version 5.5.2.0
tm Text Mining Package
wordcloud Word clouds
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Other Settings

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 Other Settings
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We have install R, RStudio and required Packages

After installation is complete, R and RStudio can be
accessed through the search icon on top left corner of
screen
For e.g., to open RStudio type RStudio on Search bar
An icon with caption RStudio will appear, select it to open
RStudio
To avoid searching from next time, choose the option
Lock to Launcher, by right clicking on the icon of
opened RStudio tool on task bar

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 Other Settings Contd
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For effective working we recommend you to create

three folders under ~/R
Code to store the code written by you
Data to store the used datasets
Figures to store the plotted graphs and other figures
To work in a particular directory, we can set the
working directory from SessionSet Working
Directory
Same can be done through command on R console:
setwd(~/R/Data)
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 All the Best
Happy Learning

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