1. Installation

Stable version from the CRAN

The stable version of the package is available on CRAN servers, which means that you can install it with the regular install.packages() function.

install.packages("icosa")

If for some reason, the installlation from CRAN fails, you might need to look into alternative methods.

Alternative methods

Stable version from Zenodo (source)

For the sake of completeness and simplicity, the sources of the stable version are also available on GitHub. The install.packages() function can be used to install this from source - but you will have to install dependencies of the package, and you have to have a compiler installed on your system!

install.packages(
    "https://zenodo.org/records/16992403/files/icosa_0.12.0.tar.gz?download=1", 
    repos=NULL, type="source")

Development version

If you encounter technical problems with the package that are not described anywhere, you might want to take a look at the development version. Note that you will still need to have a compiler installed!

Development version using `devtools`

The simplest way to install the in-development version is via the devtools package. You just have to indicate that you want to install from the in-development devel branch.

devtools::install_github("icosa-grid/R-icosa@devel")

Manual install

You can also the install the package manually with the following steps:

Clone the repository to your local hard drive.
Make sure that you have the package dependencies, and a compiler installed: on Windows, RTools should include all the tools you need, on Mac, you will need to have XCode - if you use GNU/Linux, you have to go down deeper in the rabbit hole :).
Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you cloned. The icosa directory should be visible from there.
Run this line in the terminal

R CMD INSTALL icosa