A.3.4 Install the Oracle Machine Learning for R Supporting Packages

Example of installing the OML4R supporting packages.

Follow these steps to download and install the OML4R supporting packages:

To download the OML4R supporting packages:

1. Go to the Oracle Machine Learning for R Downloads website.

2. Accept the License Agreement and select the Supporting packages for Windows. Save the file in the installation directory that you created in Install Oracle Instant Client.

   c:\myoml4rclient\ore-supporting-win-x86_64-1.5.1.zip
   

3. Unzip the file.

   When you unzip the file, the supporting subdirectory is created. The contents of the installation directory are shown as follows:

   arules_1.1-9.zip
   Cairo_1.5-8.zip
   DBI_0.5.zip
   png_0.1-7.zip
   randomForest_4.6-10.zip
   ROracle_1.3-1.zip
   statmod_1.4.21.zip
   

To install the supporting packages from the R Console:

1. Start R from the Windows Start menu. If you have installed both 32 and 64-bit R, be sure to choose 64-bit R.

   The R Console window is displayed.

2. Install the packages as follows:

   install.packages("c:/myoml4rclient/supporting/ROracle_1.3-1.zip", repos=NULL)
   install.packages("c:/myoml4rclient/supporting/DBI_0.5.zip", repos=NULL)
   install.packages("c:/myoml4rclient/supporting/png_0.1-7.zip", repos=NULL)
   install.packages("c:/myoml4rclient/supporting/Cairo_1.5-8.zip", repos=NULL)
   install.packages("c:/myoml4rclient/supporting/arules_1.1-9.zip", repos=NULL)
   install.packages("c:/myoml4rclient/supporting/randomForest_4.6-10.zip", repos=NULL)
   install.packages("c:/myoml4rclient/supporting/statmod_1.4.21.zip", repos=NULL) 
   

   Each successful package installation produces this message in the R console:

   package 'package_name' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked