Installing MXNet for R in Windows System

Question

I want to install the MXNet library in RStudio on my Windows system, but i'm not able to do it.

Answer 1

Run the below code and see if it runs:

cran <- getOption("repos")
cran["dmlc"] <- "https://apache-mxnet.s3-accelerate.dualstack.amazonaws.com/R/CRAN/"
options(repos = cran)
install.packages("mxnet")

Once, you install the "mxnet" package from cran repository, run the below command:

library(devtools)
install_version("DiagrammeR", version = "0.9.2", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")
library(DiagrammeR)
library(mxnet)

You would have to load "DiagrammeR" package, before you load the "mxnet" package.

Hoping that this would help you in loading the "mxnet" package.

Answer 2

You can install it for python in the following manner:

cd python
sudo python setup.py install 
#Open Python terminal
python
# You should be able to import mxnet library without any issues.
>>> import mxnet as mx;
>>> a = mx.nd.ones((2, 3));
    >>> print ((a*2).asnumpy());
        [[ 2.  2.  2.]
        [ 2.  2.  2.]]