This page contains instructions to download and install the R-INLA package

You can install the package using one of the following alternatives:
1. The easy way

Type the following command line in R
 
> source("http://www.math.ntnu.no/inla/givemeINLA.R")

later on, you can upgrade using

> inla.upgrade()

(Ooops: There are two versions of the R-INLA package; one more stable and one that is in active development. To get the test-version do

> inla.upgrade(testing=TRUE)

but you can go back to the more stable version with testing=FALSE. See this link for further information.)

2. The regular way:

Download the package choosing one of the following alternatives

 
 
 

and install it. For Linux and Mac, do

> install.packages("INLA.tgz", repos=NULL, type="source")

for Windows, start R and select the Packages menu, then Install
package from local zip file by find and highlight the location of the
zip file and click on open.

Small prints:
  • All source code for this project is now hosted by google code and you can view the latest changes here.
  • Software licenses
  • In case you want to know the details the inla-program which is the backend-program which do all the computations, you can download the manual here. However, it is not up-to-date with respect to new models but the input/output file-format is well described. 
  • Compile it yourself? Download build-packages and compile it yourself. You will need to install mercurial which is available in all larger Linux distros and binaries for Mac OSX is available from the same site.