This is the source.list for the latest version of Ubuntu (19.04 Disco Dingoat the time of writing). To do this open the /etc/apt/sources.list file in your favourite text editor (gedit, vim, nano etc) and add the following line (you will need root permission to do this): If you receive an error after running the code above you may need to add a ‘source.list’ entry to your etc/apt/sources.list file. Which will install base R and also the development version of base R (you only need this if you want to compile R packages from source but it doesn’t hurt to have it). On Ubuntu fire up a shell (Terminal) and use (you will need root permission to do this): sudo apt update

In most cases you can just use your OS package manager to install R from the official repository.

There are reasonably comprehensive instruction here for Debian, Redhat, Suse and Ubuntu.

1.4.2 Integrated developement environementsįor Linux users, the installation method will depend on which flavour of Linux you are using.

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