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To Install an R Packages from a .tar.gz File

On a Mac

1. (Make sure you have installed Xcode from the Mac App Store, and installed the command line tools from within Xcode.)
2. Close R
3. Download the tar.gz onto the Desktop
4. Open the Terminal application
5. Enter "R CMD INSTALL Desktop/[pkg.tar.gz]" without the quotation marks, where [pkg.tar.gz] is the full filename of the tar.gz (such as "blockTools_0.5-7.tar.gz")
6. Open R
7. Enter at the R prompt
   > library(blockTools)

Then, you can check that you have installed the desired version using
> sessionInfo()

On a PC

See the instructions here.