Install R in Ubuntu
2017 - 05 - 08
UBUNTU 18.04
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 && \
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/' && \
sudo apt update && \
sudo apt install -y r-base r-base-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev build-essential && \
sudo -i R # install packages as root, so all users can use.
Commonly used packages:
install.packages(c('devtools', 'digest', 'repr', 'IRdisplay', 'crayon', 'pbdZMQ', 'ggplot2', 'IRkernel', 'ggpubr'))
Optional: sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/lib/R/site-library so anyone can install packages.
UBUNTU 16.04
Option 1:
sudo apt-get install -y r-base r-base-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev build-essential
Option 2 (to get a newer R version):
with PPA. ref digitalocean
sudo apt install apt-transport-https && \
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 && \
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/' && \
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install -y r-base r-base-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev build-essential && \
sudo -i R # install packages as root, so all users can use.
R-STUDIO
To install R-Studio, see: r-bloggers
DEFAULT MIRROR
To choose a mirror/package server:
Option 1: temp
chooseCRANmirror(graphics=FALSE, ind=1) # 1 = cloud
Option 2:
echo 'options(repos=structure(c(CRAN="https://cloud.r-project.org")))' >> ~/.Rprofile
Option 3:
vim /etc/R/Rprofile.site
uncomment and modify "local()":
local({r <- getOption("repos")
r["CRAN"] <- "https://cloud.r-project.org"
options(repos=r)})
INSTALL PACKAGES
Use win.binary to avoid compilation and dependency error in windows.
CHECK
install.packages(c('ggplot2'))
sessionInfo(package = NULL)
options(repr.plot.width=4, repr.plot.height=3)
t = c(1, 3, 6, 4, 9)
plot(t, col="blue")