Installation from source instructions for Mac: Prerequisites: 0.) Installing Xcode 1.) Installing MacPorts 2.) Within R run "install.packages(c("R6", "RProtoBuf"))" 3.) sudo /opt/local/bin/port install pkgconfig autoconf gsl protobuf-cpp cd emre autoconf cd .. R CMD INSTALL --preclean emre Installation from source instructions for Linux (Ubuntu): Prerequisites: 0.) Within R run "install.packages(c("R6", "RProtoBuf"))" 1.) sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libgsl0-dev cd emre autoconf cd .. R CMD INSTALL --preclean emre To run unit tests R CMD batch tests/doRUnit.R Caveats of this version: Scaled Poisson models are currently not implemented