RcppSimpleITK is an R-package using the C++ interface of SimpleITK (using Rcpp) to overcome the slow for loops in R.
Install prerequisites
At the moment only Linux is supported, also OSX should work as well.
- Linux: Build SimpleITK (including R-wrapping) and install the SimpleITK R-package (as described here, CMake and R build environment.
If you build SimpleITK as root with CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local, you can build the package globally and skip passing the args below.
Install RcppSimpleITK
via devtools from within R
Run the following command in R:
require(devtools)
install_github("zarquon42b/RcppSimpleITK", args="--configure-args=-DSimpleITK_DIR=path_to_your_SimpleITK_install_dir")
On my machine, the argument would be
install_github("zarquon42b/RcppSimpleITK",args="--configure-args=-DSimpleITK_DIR=/home/schlager/GIT/DEV/SimpleITK-build/SimpleITK-build/")
via command line
Get the source, either by cloning this repo or downloading the tarball and then issueing in a terminal
R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="-DSimpleITK_DIR=path_to_your_SimpleITK_install_dir" RcppSimpleITK[*.tar.gz]