Installation guide for R itself and the R package 'exams' as well as further open-source tools that are required for certain tasks.
1. R
R/exams is an extension for the R system for statistical computing and hence the first installation step is the base R system.
Automatic detection of MikTeX, TeX Live, Ghostscript, and Standardlatex; SVN support; Note: The OS X version is experimental. Since none of the currently active developers are using OS X, we cannot thoroughly test it. We do our best to also support OS X, but be prepared that there may be some issues. MiKTeX is available for selected operating systems. Please check the prerequisites in order to find out whether your system is supported. If your system is not (yet) supported: it is not too difficult to build MiKTeX.
- Windows and (Mac) OS X: Go to https://CRAN.R-project.org/, the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). Simply click on the link for your operating system and at least install the “base” system. It is recommended to also install the accompanying “Rtools” which are not always needed immediately but, e.g., necessary for producing zip files for some learning management systems.
Linux: While it is possible to download from CRAN by hand, it iseasier for most distributions to install the packaged binary. For example,on Debian/Ubuntu:
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There is a wide variety of interfaces for using R including simply the shell,Emacs, or dedicated graphical user interfaces for Windows and OS X, respectively.Moreover, RStudio is an open-source cross-platform integrated developmentenvironment that facilitates many common tasks for R beginners.
- For R beginners: Go tohttps://www.RStudio.com/products/RStudio/ and obtain the “Desktop” versionof RStudio (Open Source Edition).
2. R package “exams”
The core of R/exams is the open-source R package“exams”, also available from CRAN.It can be easily installed interactively from within R with a single command.If necessary, the development version of the package is also available, whichmay provide some new features or small improvements.
Stable version:
Development version:
Details: Several additional R packages, automatically installed by the command above,are needed for certain tasks: base64enc (HTML-based output: Base64 encoding ofsupplements), knitr (R/Markdown-based exercises), magick (turning LaTeX outputinto images, e.g., for TikZ graphics), png (NOPS exams: reading scanned PNG images),RCurl (ARSnova: posting exercises), RJSONIO (ARSnova: JSON format),rmarkdown (pandoc-based conversion), tinytex (PDF output: lightweight LaTeX distribution),tth (HTML output from R/LaTeX exercises).
3. LaTeX
For producing PDF output, the typesetting system LaTeX is used internally by R/exams.If no LaTeX distribution (like TeXLive or MikTeX) is already installed, then TinyTeXis a lightweight distribution that can be easily obtained and maintained with the tinytexR package (already installed in the step above). TinyTeX can be installed from within R with:
Note: When producing the first PDF files with R/exams, tinytex will automatically installfurther required LaTeX packages and hence take somewhat longer to compile.
Instead of TinyTeX it is, of course, also possible to install a full LaTeX distribution,especially if this is not only needed for R/exams:
- Windows: Go to http://www.MikTeX.org/ and click on “Download” to obtainthe MikTeX distribution for Windows.
- (Mac) OS X and Linux: LaTeX distributions are available in the standardrepositories and can be installed in the “usual” way, typically using theTeX Live distribution.
4. Pandoc
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For certain conversions performed internally in R/exams, specifically whenMarkdown is involved, the universal document converterpandoc is employed. If you have installed RStudio, thenpandoc is provided along with it and nothing else needs to be done.
Otherwise pandoc can be obtained from its web page (linked above) or standard repositories,e.g., for Debian/Ubuntu:
Optional: Further scanning tools
Note: Unless you want to process written NOPS examsfrom scanned PDF files, this section can be skipped.
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If the scanned images of written NOPS exams (from your photocopier) are in PDF format,they need to be converted to PNG first using the PDF Toolkit pdftk andImageMagick’s convert.
- Windows: Install PDFTk Free, ImageMagick, and Ghostscript.
- Note: During the installation of PDFTk and ImageMagick check the boxes for “Add application directory to your environmental path” or“Add application directory to your System Path”, respectively.
- (Mac) OS X: Install MacPorts, PDFTk Free, and ImageMagick.
- Note: ImageMagick requires MacPorts which in turn automatically installs Ghostscript as a dependency.The PDFTk version is for OS X 10.11 up to 10.13 (High Sierra).
Linux: Install PDFTk and ImageMagick from your distribution, e.g., for Debian/Ubuntu:
Make sure everything works
To check that the software from Steps 1-4 works, try to run some examples from theexercise template gallery, e.g., dist orttest.
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