Installing, Loading, and Detaching R Packages
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To install a package in R, the function to be used is install.packages. Let say we want to install the ggplot2 package, well simply code this withWant to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
To install more than one package, we do this by
Note that in executing the above codes, a dialogue box will pop up asking for the download mirror, just choose the one that’s in or near your country. Now to load these packages, run
And to detach these packages, run
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