无法在Azure ml中安装R库

Question

I have been trying to install a machine learning package that I can use in my R script.

I have done placed the tarball of the installer inside a zip file and am doing

install.packages("src/packagename_2.0-3.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type="source") 

from within the R script. However, the progress indicator just circles indefinitely, and it's not installed in environment.

How can I install this package?

ada is the package I'm trying to install and ada_2.0-3.tar.gz is the file I'm using.

Answer 1

You cannot use the tarball packages. If you are on windows you need to do the following:

Once you install a package (+ it's dependencies) it will download the packages in a directory

C:\\Users\\xxxxx\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\some directory name\\downloaded_packages

These will be in a zip format. These are the packages you need.

Or download the windows binaries from cran.

Next you need to put all the needed packages in one total zip-file and upload this to AzureML as a new dataset.

in AzureML load the data package connected to a r-script

install.packages("src/ada.zip", lib = ".", repos = NULL, verbose = TRUE)
library(ada, lib.loc=".", verbose=TRUE)

Be sure to check that all dependent packages are available in Azure. Rpart is available.

For a complete overview, look at this msdn blog explaining it a bit better with some visuals.