R install RevoScaleR

Question

When I try to install the "RevoScaleR" package, I get the following error. I tried to install this package with different versions of R, but every time I got the same error. Does anyone know why?

install.packages("RevoScaleR") 

Warning in install.packages folder: 'RevoScaleR package is not available (for version R 3.1.2)

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm not sure which version of R you are using, but the latest stable version is 3.1.2. If the package installation warning indicates that the package you are trying to install is not available, this basically means that the package developer has not yet created a version of the package compatible with the version of R that you are currently using.

If you really need to use this package (if your work is highly dependent on it, and you are in some deadline), I would advise you to install an earlier version of R (for example, 3.1.1 or 3.1) and do your work with it .

I would also like to suggest you turn to Revolution Analytics, as Andri suggested.

Thanks!

Answer 2

To update this post, to install the RevoScaleR package you need to install the Microsoft R client, see here for details:

https://www.blue-granite.com/tutorials/sql-server-r-services

Customer

R includes the ScaleR (rx [...]) functions in the RevoScaleR package. I don’t think this package is open source, therefore it is not available in cran, therefore install.packages () will not work.

Answer 3

Below is more detailed information about the Microsoft R client. After installing the Ms R client and updating the R-studio path to the R client, you no longer need to install "RevoScaleR", it comes with a preinstalled Microsoft R client. Read the link more. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-r/r-client-get-started

Answer 4

RevoScaleR is available only when installing Microsoft R Client or when using Microsoft RStudio Server through Azure. After installing it, you do not need to install install.packages ("RevoScaleR"), since it is already installed.

R Studio will automatically have a version of R [64-bit] C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft \ R Client \ R_SERVER in the Global Settings section

Answer 5

You just need to install backup CRAN repositories:

 options("repos" = c(CRAN = "https://mran.microsoft.com/")) 

and then

 install.packages("RevoScaleR") 

will work correctly.