installing_Rpackages_for_ipython.py

# for new ipython 
%load_ext rpy2.ipython
import rpy2.robjects as robjects
from rpy2.robjects.packages import importr
import rpy2.robjects.packages as rpackages
from rpy2.robjects.vectors import StrVector

# This now installs the packages, so only need to run once
utils = rpackages.importr('utils')
utils.chooseCRANmirror(ind=2) # select the first mirror in the list

packnames = ("ggplot2", "scales", "lme4",
              "multcomp", "contrast", "plyr", 
              "pwr", "car","leaps", "xtable", 
                "LMERConvenienceFunctions", 'segmented','lme4')
utils.install_packages(StrVector(packnames))