Our Trusted Research Environment (TRE) allows access to all packages within CRAN. We do this by running a faux-CRAN mirror which, instead of hosting CRAN packages, simply downloads on-demand the package requested and scans it for malware prior to returning it to your TRE workspace. This is far faster than our previous method where manual approval was required for each package within our mirror.
⬇ Installation
Assuming the package you want exists in CRAN, you can install it via our Cloud TRE CRAN proxy in the usual way, using the RStudio GUI. Alternatively, you can use the install.packages(...) command. E.g., to install tidyverse,
>>> install.packages('tidyverse')
We support access to binary packages for the versions of R we run, as well as source packages for our Ubuntu workspaces. Installation from Ubuntu workspaces can therefore take a while as each CRAN package has to be compiled if it includes native code.
RTools is installed on all workspaces, which allows for installation from source or installation of packages which include native code.