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Transcript of Install BlueSky Statistics 1 Getting started.pdf13. foreign For opening datasets, SPSS, SAS 14....
4 Simple Steps
1. Install R (Not required if R is already installed)
2. Install BlueSky Statistics
3. Initiate the trial or license the product
4. Install the required packages for the BlueSkyapplication
• Part A: I installed R 3.2.1 in step 1 above
• Part B: R was already installed (Needs R 3.0.2 and above, older versions should work but not tested)
Note: BlueSky Statistics is currently available on Windows 64 bit, for 32 bit Windows or MAC or Linux support please email [email protected]
Step1: Install R• Not required if you
have already installed R
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Installing R (not required if you have installed R previously)
• R 3.2.1 for windows can be downloaded from CRAN at http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/
• For your convenience the R installer for version 3.2.1 is available in the root folder of the BlueSky trial software download zip file
• Run the R-3.2.1-win executable
• Click through the screens with the following options
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Double click the R-3.2.1
windows executable
The unzipped
trial download
Welcome screen
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Following screen will be displayed only if you are not an admin, click next, in a following screen the setup will
prompt you with a location with write permission
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If you are running a 64 bit processor you don’t need the 32 bit files
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Accept the defaults
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Accept the defaults
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Make sure Save version number in the registry is selected
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Finally click finish
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Step 2: Install BlueSky Statistics
Install BlueSky Statistics
• BlueSky Statistics requires – R 3.0.2 and above (older versions should work but not tested)
– .NET version 4.0 and above
• Double click on the BlueSky Windows Installer package
• The prompts and very straight forward and you can accept the defaults
• Click Finish and the install will complete
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Double click the BlueSky
windows installer
The unzipped
trial download
Step3: Initiate the trial or license the product
Launch the BlueSky Statistics application
• The folder BlueSky will be found in the start menu or desktop icons
• Launch the BlueSky Statistics application
• The default path to the executable is– C:\Users\<user
name>\Documents\BlueSky\BlueSkyStatistics\BlueSky.exe
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You will see the screen below
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The message above gets displayed because required packages are not installed. Click OK. We will install required packages in Step 4
You will then see the screen below, click OK to start the 30 day trial
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If you want to purchase a copy, contact [email protected]
Step 4: Install the required packages
Part A: I installed R 3.2.1 in step 1
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Install required packages
• All the required packages are in the folder where you installed BlueSky Statistics on your local hard drive– BlueSky Statistics\R Installers\R 3.2.1 packages
folder
• Launch BlueSky Statistics
• Go to Tools->Install packages from a folder
• Browse to path to …BlueSky Statistics\R Packages\R 3.2.1 packages folder
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Go to Tools->Install packages from a folder
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Browse to path to …BlueSky Statistics\R Packages\R 3.2.1 packages folder and click OK
You will see a busy screen as all the packages are installed.
THIS WILL TAKE A COUPLE OF MINUTES.
A report of the packages installed and loaded are displayed in the output
• If you see the text error, email [email protected] and copy all the text in the report (click within report to select text)
• If the message says could not install package as its already installed, that is fine
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If no errors are reported, congratulations you are ready to start using BlueSky Statistics, go to slide 29
Step 4: Install the required packages
Part B: R was already installed
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BlueSky Statistics requires the following packages
Sr. No Package Name Summary of capabilities
1. Base and stats package*
Several exploratory analysis functions, hypothesis testing, anova, compute, aggregate, sort, merge datasets, subsets, some modeling functions (kmeansclustering, principal component analysis, factor analysis)
2. MASS Ordinal regression
3. nnet Multinomial logit modeling
4. forecast Time series modeling and forecasting
5. ggplot2 Bar graphs, box plots, density plots, strip charts
6. ggthemes Themes for the above graphs
7. car 3 D scatterplot, scatterplot
•Base and stats are typically available with the default R installation and hence you should not have to install them
BlueSky Statistics requires the following packages
Sr. No Package Name Summary of capabilities
8. cloroplethr Maps
9. cloroplethrMaps Maps
10. gplots Heatmap
11. RcmdrMisc Histogram, Binning, PlotMeans
12. aplpack Stem and leaf plot
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14. data.table Needed for the data grid
15. readxl Opening Excel files
16. BlueSky This is our package that contains some analytical functions as well as code necessary for the application to work. We install this package automatically on launch.
17. GPArotation Used for the rotation functions with factor analysis
Make a list of the packages you need
• Run the R function below from the BlueSky Statistics Window– rownames(installed.packages())
• This command will list all the packages available with your R install
• Compare with slides 24, 25 to find the packages that need to be installed
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Enter R function
here
Install the missing packages
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After clicking Install package from CRAN, you select the CRAN mirror closest to you
Click on Tools->Package->Install package
from CRAN
Enter one or more packages to be installed
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After you have installed all the packagesyou are ready to use BlueSky Statistics
Next steps
• Watch the video titled Getting Started with BlueSkyStatistics - Part 2: User Interface Basics on the video gallery tab at http://www.blueskystatistics.com/category-s/109.htm (Direct link to video can be found on youtube at https://youtu.be/_ryTYBOVgqw)
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Thank You
• Email [email protected] questions/comments
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