R: Unleash Machine Learning Techniques

Installing and loading the R packages

We discussed earlier how to install an R package using the install() function. To use an installed package, you also need to load it to be able to use it. Let's go through this again, first with the installation in RStudio and then loading the package. Look for and click the Packages tab. You should see something similar to this:

Now, let's install the R package, xgboost. Click on the Install icon and type the package name in the Packages section of the popup:

Click the Install button. Once the package has been ...