ImageMagick in R

Question

I want to use ImageMagick in R, but R won't let me install it.

install.packages("ImageMagick")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/FSFH-2/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning message:
package ‘ImageMagick’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1) 

I'm under the impression that I have the latest version of R, so what's going on here?

Additionally, I downloaded ImageMagick into windows, but I can't figure out how to get it into R. Help!

Answer 1

you need to install a package named "installr" prior to installing ImageMagick.

Simple Steps:

1. Tools->InstallPackages->installr
2. From R command Line write
   • require(installr)
   • install.ImageMagick() (This command will by default install the latest version, u can specify the URl of the version needed)

The package will be installed !!!