R and R-Instat Information

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+#Information about R in R-Instat and the R packages included!
+
+#We generally update with each release to use the latest stable version of R
+#From 2024 this means R-Instat is only for 64-bit machines.
+#If you know someone who is still using a 32bit machine, their latest version
+#of R-Instat is 0.7.16 which can be downloaded from the R-Instat web site. 
+R.version
+
+#We like RStudio, but, for simplicity, we install a separate version of R. 
+# We have two library locations for the R packages installed with R-Instat
+#Location [2] from the libpaths function below, is where they are all loaded
+# on installation.  The Tools > Install R package permits the used to 
+# update an existing R package, or to add a new one.   
+.libPaths()
+
+# Somr R packages are loaded into memory, each time you start R-Instat.  
+# The sessionInfo function shows which they are:
+sessionInfo()
+
+# We currently load almost 600 packages into R-Instat.  We choose about
+# 200 of them and they add the others that they depend on.
+# The results from this command are shown, for convenience, in a data frame
+# Get the installed packages as a matrix
+installed_packages_matrix <- installed.packages()
+
+# Convert the matrix to a data frame
+installed_packages_df <- as.data.frame(installed_packages_matrix, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
+data_book$import_data(data_tables=list(installed_packages_df=installed_packages_df))
+data_book$get_data_frame(data_name="installed_packages_df")