2.5 Install Rattle

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On 01 September 2026 the Rattle version was 6.5.67. See the CHANGELOG for details.

Summary

  1. First install R as in Section 2.1.
  2. Then follow your operating system specific guides here to install Rattle:

Details

Before we can run Rattle we need to ensure R itself and the required R pacakges used by Rattle are installed.

The latest version of the source code for Rattle is available from github. Version 6 of Rattle is a new implementation using the modern Flutter framework for Dart. Flutter supports multiple platforms so that Flutter based apps will run native and similarly on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Rattle’s sample weather datasets are available as weather.csv and weatherAUS.csv.



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