R is an open-source programming language and free environment that specialises in statistical computing and graphical representation. It is mainly used by statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and performing data analysis
add to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
Installation
To obtain the latest R 4.0 packages, add an entry like
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/
or
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/
or
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran40/
To obtain the latest R 3.6 packages, use:
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu eoan-cran35/
or
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/
or
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran35/
or
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty-cran35/
To obtain the latest R 3.4 packages, use:
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/
or
deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev xml2 libxml2-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev unixodbc-dev
If we want to upgrade to the latest version
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev --reinstall
To install any package under R Example Below
sudo R
install.packages("tidyverse")
after installation
R
library(tidyverse)
── Attaching packages ─────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse 1.3.0 ──
✔ ggplot2 3.2.1 ✔ purrr 0.3.3
✔ tibble 2.1.3 ✔ dplyr 0.8.3
✔ tidyr 1.0.0 ✔ stringr 1.4.0
✔ readr 1.3.1 ✔ forcats 0.4.0
── Conflicts ────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
✖ dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
✖ dplyr::lag() masks stats::lag()
Reference :
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
