Install R on Ubuntu 17.10

r_ubuntu_17_10.sh

# Install R
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdebi libxml2-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libopenblas-dev r-base r-base-dev

# Install RStudio
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-xenial-1.1.383-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi rstudio-xenial-1.1.383-amd64.deb
printf '\nexport QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=gtk\n' | sudo tee -a ~/.profile

# install common packages
R --vanilla << EOF
install.packages(c("tidyverse","data.table","dtplyr","devtools","roxygen2","bit64"), repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/")
q()
EOF

# Export to HTML/Excel
R --vanilla << EOF
install.packages(c("htmlTable","openxlsx"), repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/")
q()
EOF

# Blog tools
R --vanilla << EOF
install.packages(c("knitr","rmarkdown"), repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
q()
EOF
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install markdown rpy2==2.7.8 pelican==3.6.3

# PDF extraction tools
sudo apt-get install libpoppler-cpp-dev default-jre default-jdk r-cran-rjava
sudo R CMD javareconf
R --vanilla << EOF
library(devtools)
install.packages("pdftools", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/")
install_github("ropensci/tabulizer")
q()
EOF

# TTF/OTF fonts usage
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
R --vanilla << EOF
install.packages("showtext", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/")
q()
EOF

# Cairo for graphic devices
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libxt-dev libcairo2-dev
R --vanilla << EOF
install.packages("Cairo", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/")
q()
EOF

isn't xenial a 16.04/16.10 vesrion and not 17.xx (artful)?
the codes mentions xenial in several places:
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-xenial-1.1.383-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi rstudio-xenial-1.1.383-amd64.deb

Is it alright?

Thanks for the explanation. Similar to the R-blogger post setup.

@SuperHubert, RStudio verison for xenial from website says for Ubuntu 16.04+ -- check website/html link
https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

I'm using the latest 1.1.453 /Ubuntu 17.10

I've been running into problems installing R on Ubuntu 17 for quite a while now. Line #3 did the trick! Thanks!

Great!! Thanks!!