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 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)})
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")