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David
David

Reputation: 1267

Installing a package in R inside a script

I'm a beginner with R. I want to launch R scripts at specific moments, managing this with Linux's cron and launching the scripts as Rscript name_of_the_script.

I have installed tidyverse in Rstudio, with install.packages("tidyverse"). Ok, but I guess that installation is specific to the Rstudio environment. When working in a script (not using Rstudio), and launching that script with Rscript, the library tidyverse is not installed. Even worse, I couldn't install it in the script with install.packages("tidyverse").

What do you suggest? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2683

Answers (2)

Apex
Apex

Reputation: 1096

The solution is you simply use require() to load your package without worrying about the path.

require(dplyr)

Upvotes: 2

J.P. Le Cavalier
J.P. Le Cavalier

Reputation: 1345

The library is, in fact, probably installed. It is difficult to be sure of what is the problem without more details, but I would guess that you did not load your library in your script. Try to add the following at the beginning on the first line of your script

library(tidyverse)

Upvotes: 2

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