B R Package Installation Tips

This appendix introduces some of the mechanics involved in working with R packages. If you are tasked with installing, uninstalling, or upgrading Oracle Machine Learning for R but you do not have extensive experience working with R packages, then you may find the information in this appendix helpful.

This appendix contains these topics:

• R Package Installation Basics
  You can install R packages from the R command line or from your system’s command line.
• Set the R Repository
  Instructions for setting the R repository.
• About R Package Installation for Oracle Machine Learning for R
  Embedded R execution with OML4R allows the use of CRAN or other third-party R packages in user-defined R functions ran on the Oracle Database server.
• About CRAN Task Views
  CRAN maintains a set of Task Views that identify packages associated with a particular task or methodology.