Upgrading R
The following assumes that RStudio is installed.
First, of course, download the latest R version from CRAN
install.packages("devtools")
Install the packages that you need. Here I suggest that you install packages that have lots of dependencies first – as this should install of all of the dependencies. … kind of top down install process.
My packages
Stage 1: My essential everyday packages
devtools
bookdown
tidyverse
bookdown
GIS and remote sensing
sf
raster
tmap
mapview
lidR (see below)
rgdal
gdalUtil
Statistics
car
lsr
nlme – Package to perform linear mixed effects model analysis
agricolae – Package for performing Tukey HSD
lsmeans – Package for doing pairwise tests wtih lme results
moments
psych
Machine Learning
caret
SuperLearner
mlr3
mlr3learners
mlr3viz
Model metrics
vip
vimp
Pretty
latex2exp
rmdformats – alternate reports look for rmarkdown
gridExtra
Parallel Processing
snow
doParallel
Install CRAN packages
plist <- c("devtools", "bookdown", "blogdown", "tidyverse")
plist <- append(plist, c("sf", "raster", "tmap", "mapview"))
plist <- append(plist, c("car", "lsr", "nlme", "moments",
"psych", "caret", "SuperLearner", "mlr3", "mlr3learners", "mlr3viz"))
plist <- append(plist, c("vip", "vimp"))
plist <- append(plist, c("latex2exp", "snow"))
lapply(plist, install.