MXNet package installation in R

Question

I get plenty of trouble when trying to install MXNet package in R I am using the 3.4.0 version of R and I am on windows 10 CPU intel i3, 64bits x64-based processor.

I get prompted:

install.packages("mxnet")
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib/PACKAGES.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/los40/OneDrive/Documentos/R/win-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘mxnet’ is not available (for R version 3.4.0)
Warning in install.packages :
  cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/PACKAGES.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'

I've tried downloading the .rar files provided here. I decompress one and get the folder where it says "R package" attempting to install it by using:

> install.packages('R.package.rar', lib='D:/mxnet',repos = NULL)
Error in install.packages : type == "both" cannot be used with 'repos = NULL'
> install.packages('R.package.rar', lib='D:/mxnet')
Warning in install.packages :
  package ‘R.package.rar’ is not available (for R version 3.4.0)

The guide found in http://mxnet.io/get_started/windows_setup.html makes no sense to me since I cannot find the file required in the steps for installing the prebuild package on windows called setupenv.cmd

Answer 1

For mxnet package install in R using this command for only CPU

cran <- getOption("repos")
cran["dmlc"] <- "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/apache-mxnet/R/CRAN/"
options(repos = cran)
install.packages("mxnet",dependencies = T)
library(mxnet)