Installing RStat

This chapter reviews the installation prerequisites, as well as the system requirements and instructions for installing RStat. The installation walks you through the installation of a full R environment and the additional required GNU Open Source Gtk+ Runtime Environment and GGobi packages.

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. RStat is a package extension that resides within the R environment and takes advantage of many other R packages.

All of these packages are GNU Open Source free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

As required by the GNU General Public License (GPL), a copy of the RStat source code is available upon request. You may contact Information Builders Customer Support to request a copy of the RStat source code. Information Builders will not support modifications to the source code provided.