To do this, open the VirtualBox, click File Import Appliance and select the Exasol Community Edition. Then the VM needs to be imported into the VirtualBox. Take the Virtual Box for Windows hosts under VirtualBox platform packages.Īfter the VirtualBox has been installed, the Exasol Community Edition needs to be downloaded.

A virtualization software such as the VirtualBox that Oracle offers for free is required for starting it. The Exasol Free Edition is delivered as virtual machine (VM). Before we continue with RStudio, a few more components need to be installed. If after starting RStudio there is a starting message from R in the console as well as a prompt with an “>”, then RStudio is ready.

When installing RStudio, the connection to R will be established automatically. RStudio is currently the best choice for most use cases. Therefore it is recommended to use an independent IDE. R comes with a small IDE which is, however, rather sparsely equipped. You can keep the default settings in the installation. You can find the latest version for example here. If you are already using some of the components, you can simply skip the respective step of the installation.Īt first, R needs to be installed. The blog entry is based on a webinar from May 13, 2016. The following text serves as a step-by-step instruction for installing and configuring all the necessary components for the connection of R with the Exasol Community Edition in a Windows environment.

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