[R] Script installation for R

CONTRIBUTORS.md

@@ -113,3 +113,4 @@ List of Contributors
 * [Yuance Li](https://github.com/liyuance)
 * [Sandeep Krishnamurthy] (https://github.com/sandeep-krishnamurthy)
 * [Andre Moeller] (https://github.com/andremoeller)
+* [Miguel Gonzalez-Fierro](https://github.com/miguelgfierro)

docs/get_started/setup.md

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ For users of Python on Amazon Linux and Ubuntu operating systems, MXNet provides
 
 ### Quick Installation on Ubuntu
 
-We provide simple installation scripts for setting up MXNet for Python on Ubuntu 12+ machine. We will install MXNet in your home folder ```~/MXNet```.
+We provide several installation scripts for setting up MXNet for Python and R on Ubuntu 12+ machine. We will install MXNet in your home folder ```~/MXNet```.
 
 
  
@@ -93,14 +93,22 @@ git clone https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet.git ~/MXNet/mxnet --recursive
 
 # Install MXNet dependencies
 cd ~/MXNet/mxnet/setup-utils
-bash install-mxnet-ubuntu.sh
+bash install-mxnet-ubuntu-python.sh
 
 # We have added MXNet Python package path in your ~/.bashrc. 
 # Run below command to refresh environment variables.
 $ source ~/.bashrc
 ```
 
-You can view the installation script we just used to install MXNet for Python [here](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/mxnet/master/setup-utils/install-mxnet-ubuntu.sh).
+You can view the installation script we just used to install MXNet for Python [here](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/mxnet/master/setup-utils/install-mxnet-ubuntu-python.sh).
+
+To install MXNet for R:
+
+```bash
+cd ~/MXNet/mxnet/setup-utils
+bash install-mxnet-ubuntu-r.sh
+```
+The installation script to install MXNet for R can be found [here](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/mxnet/master/setup-utils/install-mxnet-ubuntu-r.sh).
 
  
 
@@ -357,7 +365,7 @@ make rpkg
 These commands create the MXNet R package as a tar.gz file that you can install as an R package. To install the R package, run the following command:
 
 ```bash
-R CMD INSTALL mxnet_0.5.tar.gz
+R CMD INSTALL mxnet_0.7.tar.gz
 ```
 
 Note: Use your MXNet version number.

setup-utils/install-mxnet-ubuntu.sh → setup-utils/install-mxnet-ubuntu-python.sh

@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@
 ######################################################################
 set -e
 
-echo "Installing build-essential, libatlas-base-dev, libopencv-dev..."
+MXNET_HOME="$(dirname "$PWD")" 
+echo "MXNet root folder: $MXNET_HOME"
 
+echo "Installing build-essential, libatlas-base-dev, libopencv-dev..."
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libatlas-base-dev libopencv-dev
 
-echo "Installing MXNet core. This can take few minutes..."
-cd ~/MXNet/mxnet/
+echo "Building MXNet core. This can take few minutes..."
+cd $MXNET_HOME
 make -j$(nproc)
 
 echo "Installing Numpy..."
@@ -24,6 +26,6 @@ echo "Installing Python package for MXNet..."
 cd python; sudo python setup.py install
 
 echo "Adding MXNet path to your ~/.bashrc file"
-echo "export PYTHONPATH=~/MXNet/mxnet/python" >> ~/.bashrc
+echo "export PYTHONPATH=$MXNET_HOME/python:PYTHONPATH" >> ~/.bashrc
 
 echo "Done! MXNet for Python installation is complete. Go ahead and explore MXNet with Python :-)"

setup-utils/install-mxnet-ubuntu-r.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+######################################################################
+# This script installs MXNet for R along with all required dependencies on a Ubuntu Machine.
+# We recommend to install Microsoft RServer together with Intel MKL library for optimal performance
+# More information can be found here: 
+# https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/09/15/building-deep-neural-networks-in-the-cloud-with-azure-gpu-vms-mxnet-and-microsoft-r-server/
+# Tested on Ubuntu 14.0+ distro.
+# This script assumes that R is already installed in the system
+######################################################################
+set -e
+
+MXNET_HOME="$(dirname "$PWD")" 
+echo "MXNet root folder: $MXNET_HOME"
+
+echo "Building MXNet core. This can take few minutes..."
+cd $MXNET_HOME
+make -j$(nproc)
+
+echo "Installing R dependencies. This can take few minutes..."
+sudo Rscript -e "install.packages('devtools', repo = 'https://cran.rstudio.com')"
+sudo Rscript -e "install.packages(c('Rcpp', 'DiagrammeR', 'data.table', 'jsonlite', 'magrittr', 'stringr', 'roxygen2'), repos = 'https://cran.rstudio.com')"
+
+echo "Compiling R package. This can take few minutes..."
+make rpkg
+
+echo "Installing R package..."
+sudo R CMD INSTALL mxnet_0.7.tar.gz
+
+echo "Done! MXNet for R installation is complete. Go ahead and explore MXNet with R :-)"