R on ALICE

Running R from bacth scripts

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

The currently supported version is 3.6.0/3.6.2 (Centos7). 3.6.2 was built with the coda compilers. 3.6.0 was build using the standard GCC compiler.

load R in your environment?

You can obtain R in your environment by loading the R module i.e.:

 module load R/3.6.0-foss-2019a-Python-3.7.2

or

 module load R/3.6.2-fosscuda-2019b

The command R --version returns the version of R you have loaded:

 R --version
 R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) -- "Sincere Pumpkin Patch"
 Copyright (C) 2016 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
 Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

The command which R returns the location where the R executable resides:

 which R
 /cm/shared/easybuild/software/R/3.6.0-foss-2019a/bin/R