vignettes/installing_SLiM_for_slimr.Rmd
installing_SLiM_for_slimr.RmdThis vignette will try and guide you through installing SLiM on your
machine to use with slimr.
After installing slimr and loading it for the first time
you will probably see the following message:
#> Welcome to the slimr package. slimr requires SLiM population genetics forward simulation software. Run slim_setup() for slimr to attempt to download and install the package automatically. If that doesn't work, try installing manually by going to https://messerlab.org/slim/ and following the instructions.This let’s you know that SLiM is not yet installed, and you will need
to install it in order to use much of the functionality of
slimr. It suggests trying the function
slim_setup(). It should work on any platform, though it has
only been tested extensively on Windows and Linux.
Since SLiM is only available for unix based systems, in order to use
SLiM on Windows, you will need to have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
installed on your system. WSL is available for Windows 10. If it is not
already installed, you can follow the directions here to install it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10.
We recommend that you install the newest Ubuntu flavour when choosing a
linux distribution, as slimr has only been tested on Ubuntu
WSL.