How to Install R on Linux Ubuntu 16.04
原文：https://www.datascienceriot.com/how-to-install-r-in-linux-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus/kris/
The long-awaited new Ubuntu LTS Xenial Xerus was released last week. I wrote a tutorial on installing R and R-Studio on the old 14.04 LTS, so I figured I’d update that document. Not much has changed for the new 16.04 version but there are new repositories.
Install R-Base
You can find R-Base in the Software Center; this would be the easy way to do it. However, the Software Center versions are often out of date, which can be a pain moving foward when your packages are based on the most current version of R Base. The easy fix is to download and install R Base directly from the Cran servers.
- Add R repository
First, we’ve got to add a line to our /etc/apt/sources.list file. This can be accomplished with the following. Note the “xenial” in the line, indicating Ubuntu 16.04. If you have a different version, just change that.
sudo echo “deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
- Add R to Ubuntu Keyring
First:
gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-key E084DAB9
Then:
gpg -a –export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
- Install R-Base
Most Linux users should be familiar with the old…
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
Installing R-Studio
RStudio is not currently in the Software Center, but it can easily be installed manually:
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-0.99.896-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi -n rstudio-0.99.896-amd64.deb
rm rstudio-0.99.896-amd64.deb