Jumpstart R Programming on Ubuntu 14.04

jumpstart_R.sh

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev r-cran-testthat
wget -c `wget -qO- http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/desktop | grep "Ubuntu" | grep "amd64\.deb" | sed -n "/href/ s/.*href=['\"]\([^'\"]*\)['\"].*/\1/gp" | head -1`  && \
sudo apt-get -f install && \
sudo apt-get -y install libjpeg62 && \
sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-openssl-dev && \
sudo dpkg -i rstudio-*-amd64.deb && \
sudo rm -f rstudio-*-amd64.deb && \
echo 'install.packages("swirl", repos="http://cran.r-project.org" )' | sudo R --no-save && \
sudo rm -f jumpstart_R.sh

For ultimate laziness:

wget -N https://gist.githubusercontent.com/krmbzds/4136b7ca8427318e3534/raw/4808364d931e8445fee7002fbe80af010aa90b9f/jumpstart_R.sh && sudo chmod +x jumpstart_R.sh && ./jumpstart_R.sh

If you get any permission errors you can:

sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/lib/R/

Awesome help!