From: Benjamin Mako Hill Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:25:19 +0000 (-0700) Subject: added information about installing R packages X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/gmail-maildir-counter/commitdiff_plain/221519b06e3d22b2c0fb4193f67b08a8d19822af added information about installing R packages --- diff --git a/README b/README index 5469db4..4e1d81f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -25,9 +25,27 @@ $ python count_gmail.py ~/incoming/mail/default > mail_metadata.tsv 2. Parse the output using analysis.R -------------------------------------------------------------- -I run R interactively in Emacs/ESS but you might want to use RStudio -if you are not familiar with Emacs. Alternatively, if you also output -into mail_metadata.tsv, you can just run: +If have not used R, you will to install R and three libraries I use in +the script. + +First, install R. In Debian and Ubuntu, the package is r-base. + +You will then need to install three R libraries. The easiest way to do +that is from within R. To start R, just invoke it from your shell: + +$ R + +Once R is running, you can install the packages by running these three +commands from within the R interactive shell: + +> install.packages("data.table") +> install.packages("ggplot2") +> install.packages("reshape") + +Once youv'e done that, you can run the scripts. I run R interactively +in Emacs/ESS but you might want to use RStudio if you are not familiar +with Emacs. Alternatively, if you also output into mail_metadata.tsv, +you can just run: $ R --no-save < analysis.R @@ -35,4 +53,4 @@ It will create the two PDFs files of graphs for you in the local directory. The I converted the PDFs into PNGs with imagemagick's mogrify: -$ mogrify -format png *pdf \ No newline at end of file +$ mogrify -format png *pdf