The TileDB-R
package has is available on CRAN which provides binaries for Windows and macOS which can be installed via install.packages("tiledb")
. On Linux this result in installation from source. For all operating systems, one can also clone the repository and create a compressed tarfile to check and install as described in the R manual, or install directly from Github. We also describe installing releases from Github as shown below.
If the TileDB library is installed in a custom location, you need to pass the explicit path:
To build the latest development version of TileDB-R:
install_github
will delete all temporary files upon failure. To debug build failures, clone this repository locally and build a compressed tarfile to check and install, or run the commanddevtools::install("/path/to/TileDB-R")
.
If you are using the TileDB Conda package, you may need to explicitly add the conda path after activating the environment with conda activate tiledb
.
Instructions for setting up a RStudio development environment, building, and testing the TileDB-R package are located in the developer documentation wiki.
If you experience issues when installing devtools
, see these instructions. If the problem persists, you can install devtools
with conda by running: