This week I’ve upgraded the server to LEMRS v0.6, which adds three R packages for meta-analysis, esc, metafor, and robumeta.
The esc
package requires another, much larger R package called data.table
. That package, however, wouldn’t install. Like many R packages, data.table
required the installation to do an automatic compilation of code written in C, but the C compiler couldn’t find some of the files it needed. This is because Amazon Linux uses non-standard folder locations for many of those files.
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