Chapter 5 User guides

This section details installation guides for users. See the developer installation guide.

5.1 User Installation Guide

This section describes how to install the FIMS R package and dependencies.

5.1.1 Installing the package from Github

5.1.1.1 Windows users

Before you install the FIMS package, you will need to install the Rtools executable corresponding to your R version as well as the TMB package and its dependencies. FIMS has only been developed and tested on R version 4.+, and so in order to install the package you will need to ensure you are using R version 4.+ and an RStudio version that is at least 1.2.5042. Instructions on how to install Rtools are here. Instructions on how to install TMB are here. Please ensure you have tested your TMB setup before moving on to install FIMS.

5.1.1.2 Mac users

5.1.1.3 Linux users

5.1.2 Installing from R

remotes::install_github("NOAA-FIMS/FIMS")
library(FIMS)