# Issue with KNIME R version **URL:** \ **Category:** KNIME Extensions\ **Created:** [November 9, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issue-with-knime-r-version/12562 "2018-11-09T22:45:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![mlauber71](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/mlauber71/32/73590_2.png) [@mlauber71](https://forum.knime.com/u/mlauber71)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/issue-with-knime-r-version/12562/2 "2018-11-10T10:48:50Z")
Could you give us more details? Which operating system do you use? Windows or MacOS or Linux? Here are a few hints about installing R together with KNIME: > [@Importing R Code in Knime](https://forum.knime.com/t/importing-r-code-in-knime/11260/3): > > There are two basic possibilities to use R with KNIME you have a R version on your computer and you point KNIME to it (“KNIME Interactive R Statistics Integration”) KNIME provides you with an ‘integrated’ R package that sits somewhere deep in the KNIME folders (“KNIME R Statistics Integration (Windows Binaries)”) I would advise to use the first option. So first to proper install R (and maybe RStudio to have an easier handling) and then point KNIME to it. There are further R integrations but t… If you have MacOS you would need to manually install RServe and maybe some compiling tools. > [@KNIME : R evaluation failed.](https://forum.knime.com/t/knime-r-evaluation-failed/12560/6): > > Depending upon your version of MacOS you might have to install additional tools in order to compile R packages from source code: [https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/](https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/) The error message seems to suggest it is trying to install version 1.7-3. You might have to download the newest source ( [Rserve\_1.8-6.tar.gz](https://www.rforge.net/Rserve/snapshot/Rserve_1.8-6.tar.gz)) manually from here: [https://www.rforge.net/Rserve/files/](https://www.rforge.net/Rserve/files/) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.knime.com/t/issue-with-knime-r-version/12562)._