rNMR Installation

rNMR is an add-on package developed for R, a free statistical computing envirionment. Versions of rNMR are available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix at the rNMR homepage. The rNMR package requires a relatively recent version of R (2.8 or higher). R can be downloaded free of charge from www.r-project.org.


Windows XP

  1. Install R (2.8 or higher)
  2. Open R.
  3. Go to the Packages menu and click on "Install package(s) from local zip files . . ."
  4. Find the directory where you saved "rNMR.zip" (you do not need to unzip this file) and select it.
  5. You should see a message stating that rNMR was successfully unpacked.
  6. To load rNMR, type "library(rNMR)", you should see several message displayed including "Attaching package: rNMR".

Windows 7 and Vista

  1. Install R (2.8 or higher).
  2. Open R by right-clicking on the R icon and selecting "Run as administrator", followed by "Allow" in the next window.
  3. Go to the Packages menu and click on "Install package(s) from local zip files . . ."
  4. Find the directory where you saved "rNMR.zip" (you do not need to unzip this file) and select it.
  5. You should see a message stating that rNMR was successfully unpacked.
  6. To load rNMR, type "library(rNMR)", you should see several messages displayed including "Attaching package: rNMR".

Mac and Linux

  1. Install R (2.8 or higher).
  2. Open the terminal (in Mac OS this can be found under Applications --> Utilities --> Terminal)
  3. Enter: R CMD INSTALL -l ~ rNMR.tar.gz (where rNMR.tar.gz is the full directory path to the saved rNMR .tar.gz installation file).
  4. Several messages will be displayed, ending with "* DONE (rNMR)".
  5. Open R.
  6. To load rNMR, type "library(rNMR)", you should see several message displayed including "Attaching package: rNMR".

Mac users: rNMR requires a two-button mouse (CTRL+"click" is not sufficient). On most systems, the mouse/trackpad can be configured to operate with a second button, check your system settings. Also, rNMR is only compatible with versions of Mac OS X that come with X11 preinstalled (version 10.5 and higher). rNMR may run on older versions if X11 is installed separately, but we can not gaurantee its performance.

Linux users: rNMR is supported the Linux distributions listed below.

rNMR may run on other distributions but we can not gaurantee its performance.


Please refer to the rNMR manual for information on using rNMR.