Notice the caret prompt that looks like a greater than sign. Go to your applications folder and Find R. Now we will launch R and from within R will install R-Commander. You will be notified when the installation is successful.

That one minute comment below is not to be taken very seriously. It will take a while to run the scripts so be patient. Just accept the defaults.Īgain, put in your Apple username and password and click “Install Software”. The link to it will be placed in the lower left of your browser frame.Ĭlick on the downloaded file in the lower left of the browser frame (in Chrome) and start the installation process. pkg file circled below to download the file. That will have no impact on the installed application, XQuartz.Īfter successfully installing XQuartz, you will now go here and install R: (copy the URL below and paste into Chrome)Ĭlick the. You may be asked if you want to delete the installer pkg file. Once you are told that, you will not need to install this again on this computer. You will be notified that the installation was successful. Be patient that “less than a minute” comment is not very serious.

It will take a while for the scripts to run and complete the install. That is probably DIFFERENT than your VUNetID and ePassword. Like all mac apps you will have to put in your MAC username and password. Go here:Īfter the package has downloaded, it will be in the lower left corner of your browser frame, you may click on it there or find it and click on it. If your OS is older than 10.11 you may already have XQuartz installed as part of the MacOS (but frankly you shouldn’t be running an OS that old). XQuartz is the environment that R and R-Commander reside in on the Mac. If you are using MacOS 10.11 or higher you will first need to install XQuartz. The process for installing R-Commander on your Mac is pretty straightforward. ( ) Safari is quirky and while it may work, it very well may not. This reduces the time considerably it takes to perform analysesīefore you get started, make sure you have downloaded the Chrome browser and set that as your default. Much of what you can do in native command line R can be done easily in R-Commander without knowing any of the command line features in R. R-Commander is a an easy to use Graphical User Interface to run statistical applications using the R statistical engine. Vanderbilt Nurse-Midwifery Faculty Practice.Center for Research Development and Scholarship (CRDS).VUSN Faculty/Staff Intranet (Sharepoint).

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