Is the R package `DescTools` currently supported?
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I am working on installing the Dataverse and when I run R -e "options(warn=2); install.packages('DescTools',dependencies=TRUE, repos='https://cran.r-project.org/')" it throws an error saying dependency 'RDCOMClient' is not available. According to the docs https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DescTools/readme/README.html, RDCOMClient does not exist for Mac or Linux. Should I just ignore installing this package since I am building this in Linux? The installation guide https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/installation/prerequisites.html?highlight=desctools says it is a required package.
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Start with the installation prerequisites guide and reproduce the cited R command on Linux, checking how DescTools and RDCOMClient are treated there. Confirm whether DescTools is required on Linux, then make the guide’s platform-specific requirement and expected installation outcome explicit.
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- Tech stack
- r
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- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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- Stale
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- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100