Obtain an R Package

See https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gtools/index.html Links to an external site.

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So to obtain an R package, in this case, we're going to look at the package gtools.  And we can say, all right. What is it? Well, this is a set of tools to assist in R programming and what we can see here is the version of it, what it depends on so, it needs an R version later than 2.10, when it was published, who are the authors, who the maintainer is, what sort of license it requires. And we can now get the manual. We can get the source package, or we can just load the binary packages, and off we go. It also has a reversed dependencies list, so we can see not only what it depends on [but] we can see what depends upon it.