Several users have expressed an interest in R, and our new Statistics 
faculty hire (to arrive in August) is also a heavy R user.  I could email 
these folks to see if there are any add-ons that multiple users would like 
to have.

Steve

At 12:32 PM 2/21/2006, you wrote:
>Note, I didn't copy Dr. Stevens on this.
>
>In looking at the R documentation, I think he is talking about the R add-on
>packages.  It looks like these can be setup in multiple places, so there
>could be ones that are part of the directory tree where R is installed and
>also ones that are in a directory tree that a user specifies - this is done
>with an environment variable called R_LIBS.
>
>So it looks like we could install a set of add-ons that may be of general
>use (maybe we could ask Dr. Stevens for a list), and then provide users with
>instructions on how to install additional packages and review the list of
>what is installed globally on an on-going basis.
>
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Research Computing Support [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Martin Henry H. Stevens
>Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:59 AM
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>Subject: R Software
>
>Hi Rescomp:
>Thank you for loading R. I am working on a tough global optimization
>problem right now that could use the cluster power.
>
>R relies heavily on "packages" that are maintained mirrored servers
>and which the user installs on an as needed basis. These packages add
>functionality that are in addition to the base install. There are
>hundreds (1-200?) of these packages, each of them quite small in
>size. The end user of R on the cluster, however, will not have rights
>to install these as needed.
>
>I was hoping that you could either download all of them now, or load
>a subset (10-20) that I anticipate needing. Would either of these be
>possible?
>
>Thank you,
>Hank Stevens
>
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