--- a/tool_dependencies.xml	Wed Jul 30 08:23:49 2014 -0400
+++ b/tool_dependencies.xml	Fri Aug 15 08:35:52 2014 -0400
@@ -25,6 +25,34 @@
         <readme>
 Downloads and installs Circos (v.0.64) for use in visualization. Requires perl to be installed.
         </readme>
-    </package>      
+    </package>  
+
+ <package name="R_3_0_1" version="3.0.1">
+        <install version="1.0">
+            <actions>
+                <action type="download_by_url">http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/src/base/R-3/R-3.0.1.tar.gz</action>
+                <!--<action type="set_environment_for_install">
+                    <repository name="package_readline_6_2" owner="iuc">
+                        <package name="readline" version="6.2" />
+                    </repository>
+                </action>-->
+
+                <action type="shell_command">
+                    ./configure --with-readline=no --enable-R-shlib  --with-x=no --libdir=$INSTALL_DIR/lib/ --bindir=$INSTALL_DIR/bin/ --datarootdir=$INSTALL_DIR/share/
+                </action>
+                <action type="shell_command">make</action>
+                <action type="shell_command">make install</action>
+                <action type="set_environment">
+                    <environment_variable action="set_to" name="R_HOME">$INSTALL_DIR/lib/R</environment_variable>
+                    <environment_variable action="set_to" name="R_LIBS">$INSTALL_DIR/lib/R/library</environment_variable>
+                    <environment_variable action="prepend_to" name="PATH">$INSTALL_DIR/lib/R/bin</environment_variable>
+                    <environment_variable action="append_to" name="LD_LIBRARY_PATH">$INSTALL_DIR/lib/R/lib</environment_variable>
+                    <environment_variable action="set_to" name="RHOME">$INSTALL_DIR/lib/R</environment_variable>
+                    <environment_variable action="set_to" name="R_PATH">$INSTALL_DIR/lib/R/bin</environment_variable>
+                </action>
+            </actions>
+        </install>
+        <readme>R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. http://www.r-project.org/</readme>
+    </package>    
 
 </tool_dependency>