R-setup-on-linux

initiateR.R

rm(list=ls())
wants <- c('tidyverse','AER','devtools','lfe','glmnet',
    'data.table','ff','foreach','parallel','stargazer')
has   <- wants %in% rownames(installed.packages())
if(any(!has)) install.packages(wants[!has],dependencies=TRUE,
                        repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
sessionInfo()

r_init.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Adds R to apt and install it
#
# Instructions:
# sudo chmod 700 InstallR.sh
# ./FirstTimeInstallR.sh

sudo echo "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y r-base r-base-dev r-cran-xml r-cran-rjava libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev libxml2-dev openjdk-7-* libgdal-dev libproj-dev libgsl-dev
sudo apt-get install -y xml2 default-jre default-jdk mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev 
sudo apt-get install -y mesa-common-dev libx11-dev r-cran-rgl r-cran-rglpk r-cran-rsymphony r-cran-plyr 
sudo apt-get install -y  r-cran-reshape  r-cran-reshape2 r-cran-rmysql

sudo R CMD javareconf