2.2 Installing Rattle
The latest version of the source code for Rattle is available from github. This new generation version is referred to as RattleNG or version 6 of Rattle. This is a new implementation of Rattle using the modern Flutter framework for Dart. Flutter supports multiple platforms so that Flutter based apps will run native and similarly on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Before we can run Rattle we need to ensure R itself is installed. See Section 2.1 for details on first installing R.
Once you have R installed there are a few requisite R packages that need to be installed. Generally it is good to install these as the computer administrator.
After you start up R in a terminal you will
see R’s prompt as >. Here you type R commands.
Before installing Rattle you should run the following R command:
install.packages(c("Hmisc", "VIM", "corrplot", "descr", "fBasics",
"ggthemes", "janitor", "magrittr", "mice",
"pacman", "randomForest", "rattle", "readr",
"reshape", "rpart", "skimr", "tidyverse", "tm",
"verification", "wordcloud"))You can check that a package has been properly installed by loading one of the packages from the R library:
Generally you will not see any output, and certainly no error messages if all is installed properly.
You are then ready to install Rattle on your platform. Checkout the platform specific guides here:
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