Elementary OS - Installing R and R Studio on 14.04

 

R is a popular free package statistical computing and graphics.  Installation of R studio in Elementary OS (freya) is relatively easy.

First add the follwoing line to the /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/

Then run the following command
 
sudo apt-get update

And Then run

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys E084DAB9


 Then install r-base

sudo apt-get install r-base

Installing R studio

• From RStudio website, select and download the right package. Keep in mind to download R studio Free (open source edition).
• Open the file in Ubuntu Software Center
• Click install and you’re done

This is how R studio is running on Elementary OS freya.