How to install Kappalab?

In order to be able to use Kappalab, you need first to install R. This is pretty easy. Go to the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), select your platform and download

the appropriate base package for your distribution if your are a Linux user,

the appropriate setup binary if you are a Windows or a MacOS user.

If you are a Linux user, you may alternatively directly use your package management system. For instance, on Debian GNU/Linux apt-get install r-base will install the latest version of R.

Let us now install the Kappalab package. The Kappalab package depends on the Quadprog and Kernlab packages implementing quadratic programming routines, and on the LPSolve package implementing linear programming routines. It is therefore necessary to first install Quadprog, Kernlab and LPSolve.

The simplest way of installing R packages consists in using the function install.packages (see the R help).

Alternatively, to install an R package, say 'mypkg', you can proceed as follows.

Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X users:

download the file mypkg.tar.gz,

save it to a temporary directory and decompress it by typing tar zxvf mypkg.tar.gz,

without changing directory, login as root (su) and type R CMD INSTALL mypkg.

Windows users:

download the file mypkg.zip,

startup R and from the “Packages” menu, select “Install package(s) from local zip files...”,

find the zip file that you just downloaded, select it, and click "OK".

The files quadprog.tar.gz, kernlab.tar.gz, lpSolve.tar.gz, and quadprog.zip, kernlab.zip, lpSolve.zip can be downloaded from CRAN (click on “Contributed extension packages”). The Kappalab package is also available from CRAN.