Install R on Ubuntu the fast way and without missing dependencies.
Updated 2022-05-28: Updated links.
Updated 2018-03-26: Updated gist files.
Motivation
On a previous post I explained how to install R on Ubuntu 16.04 without further complications.
Now here are the equivalent steps on Ubuntu 17.10. The presented script also installs Java and common packages as I wrote this for a fresh install.
What do you need to do this?
Administrator (sudo) access to be able to install packages.
How do you do this?
This script will install everything.
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# Install R | |
sudo apt-get update | |
sudo apt-get install gdebi libxml2-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libopenblas-dev r-base r-base-dev | |
# Install RStudio | |
cd ~/Downloads | |
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-xenial-1.1.383-amd64.deb | |
sudo gdebi rstudio-xenial-1.1.383-amd64.deb | |
printf '\nexport QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=gtk\n' | sudo tee -a ~/.profile | |
# install common packages | |
R --vanilla << EOF | |
install.packages(c("tidyverse","data.table","dtplyr","devtools","roxygen2","bit64"), repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/") | |
q() | |
EOF | |
# Export to HTML/Excel | |
R --vanilla << EOF | |
install.packages(c("htmlTable","openxlsx"), repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/") | |
q() | |
EOF | |
# Blog tools | |
R --vanilla << EOF | |
install.packages(c("knitr","rmarkdown"), repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org') | |
q() | |
EOF | |
sudo apt-get install python-pip | |
sudo pip install markdown rpy2==2.7.8 pelican==3.6.3 | |
# PDF extraction tools | |
sudo apt-get install libpoppler-cpp-dev default-jre default-jdk r-cran-rjava | |
sudo R CMD javareconf | |
R --vanilla << EOF | |
library(devtools) | |
install.packages("pdftools", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/") | |
install_github("ropensci/tabulizer") | |
q() | |
EOF | |
# TTF/OTF fonts usage | |
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev | |
R --vanilla << EOF | |
install.packages("showtext", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/") | |
q() | |
EOF | |
# Cairo for graphic devices | |
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libxt-dev libcairo2-dev | |
R --vanilla << EOF | |
install.packages("Cairo", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/") | |
q() | |
EOF |