It is only possible to look at high rate date for this project on ustar, so I've wanted to get R going. Initially, I was getting error messages saying that the packages we had were built for an earlier version of R (barolo is at 3.3), with different "internals" than the current version (3.5 on ustar). Thus, I had to build packages.
Following the instructions at: https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/installing-and-using-r, I did:
> install.packages(c("digest", "RNetCDF","splusTimeDate","splusTimeSeries", "quantreg","SparseM","Rcpp","RUnit","lattice","maps", "gWidgets2","gWidgets2tcltk"))
where I had to add "digest" to the list to get the install to work.
I tried the described install of the eol packages, but this failed, so I had to go to source. I saw that Gary had installed R to ~daq/R, so following the instructions at: https://wiki.eol.ucar.edu/sew/R/EOL, I did:
cd ~daq/R
git clone https://github.com/ncareol/R-eol.git
to create a ./R-eol directory here. The instructions say to:
cd ./R-eol/packages
./build.sh -c -e -i -t
However, this again failed with the same version error. It turns out that build.sh assumes that the packages are locally installed at /usr/local/lib/R/site-library, but the install.packages() function put everything in
~/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.5.
I cheated (as usual for me) and simply linked ..../site-library to ..../3.5 and repeated the ./build.sh command. Eventually, the build succeeded.
Better would to have figured out the build.sh script to point it to the correct subdirectory, but.....
Now to look at data!