Installing FEAR on Windows, Linux, and Mac Systems

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1 Installing FEAR on Windows, Linux, and Mac Systems Paul W. Wilson Department of Economics and School of Computing Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina , USA www: July 2013

2 1 Installing on Windows Systems Download the archived, compressed package file (FEAR.zip) for Microsoft Windows systems from The same file can be used to install either 32-bit, 64-bit, or both versions of FEAR. FEAR can be installed either for system-wide use by different users, or as a private copy for an individual user. 1.1 Installing FEAR for System-Wide Use This approach requires Administrator privileges. To install FEAR for system-wide use on Windows systems, right-click on the R icon and select Run as Administrator to start the R graphical user interface (GUI). At the top of the GUI window, click on Packages and select Install package(s) from local zip files.... In the window that opens, navigate to and select the FEAR.zip file that was downloaded previously. You should see the following in the R Console window: utils::menuinstalllocal() Next, in the R Console window, type require(fear). Since this is a new installation, you should see something similar to the following: require(fear) license.dat not found in C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.1/library/FEAR ***File "license.dat" not found. Apparently this is a new installation of FEAR. To obtain a license for FEAR, copy and paste the following nine lines to a file and see the instructions on the FEAR web site for obtaining a valid "license.dat" file. LICENSE KEY: Read 28 items Error :.onattach failed in attachnamespace() for FEAR, details: 1

3 call: detach("package:fear") error: invalid name argument FEAR has generated a unique key consisting of the eight lines of alpha-numeric characters between the two lines (you will not see all zeros as depicted here). Read the LICENSE file; if you installed the package in the default location C: Program Files R R library, then look at C: Program Files R R library FEAR LICENSE. Copy the ten lines starting and ending with into your mailer do not break the lines and to pww@clemson.edu to request a license to run FEAR. In your , include your name, physical address, address, and state whether you will use FEAR for academic or non-academic use as described in the LICENSE. I will send you a file, license.dat (after payment of the license fee as described in LICENSE if you are a non-academic user). Assuming you installed FEAR in the default location, copy this file to C: Program Files R R library FEAR. Restart R and then type require(fear). You should see something similar to this: require(fear) 1.2 Installing FEAR for a Single User If you do not have Administrator privileges, or if you do not want others to use FEAR, you should install using this approach. If you do not already have a directory (or folder ) to hold R packages that you have installed, create one (e.g., C: MY R LIBS). You will need to set an environment variable to point to this directory; click on Start, then Control Panel, System and Security, and finally System. Then click on Advanced system settings in the System window that opens, and click on Environment Variables in the new window that opens. Create a new environment variable named R LIBS USER and assign to it the name of the directory where you want to keep your R packages (e.g., C: MY R LIBS). 2

4 Next, Click on the R icon to start the R GUI. At the top of the GUI window, click on Packages and then select Install package(s) from local zip files.... In the window that opens, navigate to and select the FEAR.zip file that was downloaded previously. A new window, labeled Question, should open inside the R GUI, asking Would you like to use a personal library instead? Select Yes. If you have used the naming scheme given above, R will install FEAR to C: MY R LIBS. You should see the following in the R Console window: utils::menuinstalllocal() Now type require(fear) in the R Console window to generate a key as described above. Follow the directions above to obtain a license file (license.dat), and install the license file in to C: MY R LIBS FEAR (assuming you have used the naming scheme used here). Restart R and then type require(fear). You should see something similar to this: require(fear) 2 Installing on Linux Systems Installing FEAR on Linux systems is straight-forward. FEAR can either be installed by a system administrator (i.e., by root) for system-wide use, or by an individual user for his own use. In either case, download the archived, compressed package file (FEAR.tgz) for Linux systems from Installation by System Administrator The default location for R is /usr/local/lib64; assuming this is the location where R was installed on your system, cd to the directory containing FEAR.tgz and do the following: /bin/su cp FEAR.tgz /usr/local/lib64/r/library cd /usr/local/lib64/r/library tar xzf FEAR.tgz rm FEAR.tgz exit Next, start R and attempt to load the FEAR package by typing require(fear). Since this is a new installation, you should see something similar to the following: 3

5 require(fear) license.dat not found in /usr/local/lib64/r/library/fear ***File "license.dat" not found. Apparently this is a new installation of FEAR. To obtain a license for FEAR, copy and paste the following nine lines to a file and see the instructions on the FEAR web site for obtaining a valid "license.dat" file. LICENSE KEY: Read 28 items Error :.onattach failed in attachnamespace() for FEAR, details: call: detach("package:fear") error: invalid name argument FEAR has generated a unique key consisting of the eight lines of alpha-numeric characters between the two lines (you will not see all zeros as depicted here). Read the LICENSE file; if you installed the package in the default location /usr/local/lib64/r/library, then look at /usr/local/lib64/r/library/fear/license. Copy the ten lines starting and ending with into your mailer do not break the lines and to pww@clemson.edu to request a license to run FEAR. In your , include your name, physical address, address, and state whether you will use FEAR for academic or non-academic use as described in the LICENSE. I will send you a file, license.dat (after payment of the license fee as described in LICENSE if you are a non-academic user). Assuming you installed FEAR in the default location, copy this file to /usr/local/lib64/r/library/fear/. Then do the following: /bin/su cd /usr/local/lib64/r/library/fear chmod 644 license.dat exit Restart R and then type require(fear). You should see something similar to this: require(fear) 4

6 2.2 Installation by User From your home directory, make a directory to hold your R libraries and then install the FEAR package. To illustrate, you might do this after downloading FEAR.tgz to your home directory: cd mkdir foodir R CMD INSTALL -l ~/foodir ~/FEAR.tgz Next, start R and attempt to load the FEAR package by typing require(fear,lib.loc="path\_to\_your\_home\_dir/foodir") while replacing path to your home dir with the path to your home directory. This will generate a license key as described above; follow the directions given in the previous section to obtain a license file. When you receive the license file (license.dat), copy it to /foodir/fear/license.dat, restart R, and then type require(fear,lib.loc="path\_to\_your\_home\_dir/foodir") to load the FEAR package. 3 Installing on Mac OS X Systems Installing FEAR on on Mac OS X systems is similar to installation on Linux systems. Download the archived, compressed package file (FEAR.tar.gz) for Linux systems from The default location for R on Mac OS X systems is {/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current/Resources}. Assuming this is where R Is installed on your system, copy the package file FEAR.tar.gz to /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/library. and then do the following: cd /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/library tar xzf FEAR.tar.gz Next, start R, type require(fear) to generate a key, and follow the directions given in Section 2 to obtain a license file (license.dat). Copy the license file to /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/library/FEAR and then type again require(fear) in R. You should see something similar to this: 5

7 require(fear) 6