How to Install R and RStudio on Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) for the blog https://medium.com/@GalarnykMichael/install-r-and-rstudio-on-ubuntu-12-04-14-04-16-04-b6b3107f7779#.8bwdcvjxv

RStudioUbuntu1604.sh

# Install R + RStudio on Ubuntu 16.04

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

# Ubuntu 12.04: precise
# Ubuntu 14.04: trusty
# Ubuntu 16.04: xenial
# Basic format of next line deb https://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu <enter your ubuntu version>/
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

# Download and Install RStudio
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-1.0.44-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi rstudio-1.0.44-amd64.deb
rm rstudio-1.0.44-amd64.deb

This was really helpful for someone new to Ubuntu, thank you!

Thank you.so helpfull

No se que podría hacer para solucionar esto que me dice, como puedo instalar este paquete que falta?

sudo gdebi rstudio-1.0.44-amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
No se puede instalar este paquete
Dependency is not satisfiable: libgstreamer0.10-0

@raquellu, you probably have to enable the universe packages of Ubuntu. Go to Software and Updates and on the first tab enable the "Community-maintained free and open-source software (universe)" checkbox. Then try again.

This dependency was also required on my machine:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62

For me continues to install R 3.4.4 :(
I want the newest version 3.5.0

Thanks, very useful 👍

thanks a lot

Thank you! It is very useful.

Thanks bro, pretty useful
:)

@fhasouza85

For me continues to install R 3.4.4 :(
I want the newest version 3.5.0

You need to add it in your repositories list. That should work :
$ sudo sh -c "cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/r.list"

deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran35/
Ctrl-D

• update
  $ sudo apt-get update
• sign the keys
  $ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
• install
  $ sudo apt-get install r-base

Don't forget to uninstall the current version first !

I have followed the same step for the newest version 3.5.1. The R version upgraded, but all the R commands not working like
head("R")
It shows canclled

I had a problem with sudo gdebi rstudio-1.0.44-amd64.deb so I used commands bellow instead:

sudo dpkg -i rstudio-1.0.44-amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Hey, I had the same problems upgrading to the newest R-version.
First, remove all your r installation if it doesn't work by
sudo apt purge r-base* r-recommended r-cran-*

The only way to get R 3.5/3.6 installed correctly was the following way:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter3.5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install r-api-3.5

sudo su
echo "deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran35/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9
apt-get update
apt-get install r-base
apt-get install r-base-dev

i am having issues

when try to open after the installation, showing a blank rstudio application

Great! Thank a lot! :-). Works nicely

Thanks !!!