install-r-on-ubuntu

Instructions for installing R on Ubuntu, including RStudio.

Notes

• At the moment, these instructions are for installing Microsoft R Open, but can be modified for CRAN-R
• R Open is no the same as R Client--consider installing R Client instead if intend to use Machine Learning Server
• This is my current preferred baseline configuration and packages

1. Download installer from MS R Open

https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/rro/installation/

https://mran.microsoft.com/download/#download

1.(a) Alternatively, download installer for MS R Client

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/machine-learning-server/r-client/install-on-linux And follow instructions on this page.

2. Run these bash commands, adjust cmd line for specific file downloaded

$ sudo tar -xf microsoft-r-open-3.4.0.tar.gz

$ cd microsoft-r-open/

$ sudo ./install.sh

3. Download RStudio .deb installer

https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

4. Run these bash commands, adjust cmd line below as appropriate

$ sudo dpkg -i /path/to/deb/file

$ sudo apt-get install -f

5. Get package dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev

$ sudo apt-get install gfortran

6. Install these packages from within R

> install.packages('devtools')

> library(devtools)

> install.packages(c('curl', 'httr'))

> install.packages('tidyverse')

> install.packages(c('doParallel', 'doMC', 'doRedis')

> install_github(c("Azure/rAzureBatch", "Azure/doAzureParallel"))