R package installation references

This section collects MSI Help Desk reference notes for R packages that have needed package-specific installation steps.

General guidance

  • Run package installs in an interactive compute session when possible.

  • Match options(Ncpus = ...) to the number of tasks allocated to your session to speed up package builds.

  • Load any required system modules both when installing the package and when using it later.

  • For packages that take several minutes to compile, a Persistent Desktop session can also work well.

Example interactive session:

srun -N 1 -n 10 --mem 10G -t 20 -p msismall --pty bash

Example R session setup:

R
options(Ncpus = 10)

Package references