This guide is intended to faciliate the installation of up-to-date R packagesfor users new to either R or Linux. Unlike Windows binaries or Mac packages,Linux software is often distributed as source-code and then compiled by packagemaintainers. The use of package managers has many advantages that I won’tdiscuss here (see Wikipedia).
More importantly, the difference can be initially intimidating.
However, once the user gets used to using package managers such asapt oryum to install software,I’m confident they’ll appreciate their ease of use.

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These instructions are organized by system type.

Installing R on Mac OS is similar to Windows. Once again, The easiest way is to install it through CRAN by going to the CRAN downloads page and following the links as shown in the video below: The next step is to click on the 'R-3.6.2.pkg' (or newer version) file to begin the installation.

Debian-based Distributions

Ubuntu

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Full installation instructions for Ubuntu can be foundhere. Luckily, CRAN mirrors havecompiled binaries of R which can be installed using the apt-get package manager.To accomplish this, we’ll first add the CRANrepo for Ubuntu packages to/etc/apt/sources.list. If you prefer to manually edit the sources.list file,you can do so by issuing the following in the terminal:

R Linux For Mac Windows 10

The clear choice for Mac users new to Linux is Elementary OS. It’s a Linux distribution with heavy Mac OS inspiration. Don’t call it a clone though, because that’s just not true. Instead, Elementary OS takes the good ideas from Mac OS and implements them with a twist. Yes, Torvalds said he'd love to have one of the new M1-powered Apple laptops, but it won't run Linux and, in an exclusive interview he explains why getting Linux to run well on it isn't worth the trouble. Vaughan-Nichols writes via ZDNet: Recently, on the Real World Technologies forum, Li. R/linuxonmac: All about running linux on Apple/Mac hardware, both PPC and Intel based. How to's, requests for help, news, you name it! R supports all three major operating system (OS) types: Linux, Mac and Windows. 1 R is platform-independent, although there are some OS-specific quirks, e.g. In relation to file path notation (see Section 2.4.3). Basic OS-specific information can be queried from within R using Sys.info.

Debian

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The instructions for installing R in Debian are similar to Ubuntu. Regarding ‘stable’versions of Debian, the CRANREADME file for Debianpoints out:

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After a release of Debian “stable”, no new packages get added by Debian to keep the release as ‘stable’ as possible. This implies that the R release contained in the official Debian release will become outdated as time passes.