Installing R for RStudio on a server

installr_1.sh

## make a dir to install
sudo mkdir -m 775 /apps
chown sahilseth /apps

## download to a tmp space
cd /tmp
wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.2.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf R-3.2.2.tar.gz
cd R-3.2.2
./configure --prefix /apps/R/3.2.2/ --enable-R-shlib --enable-R-profiling \
  --enable-memory-profiling --enable-R-static-lib --enable-BLAS-shlib \
  --enable-long-double --with-cairo --with-libpng --with-jpeglib \
  --with-x --with-tcltk

## install
make
make pdf
make info
make install


## change the group
chgrp admin -R /apps/

## change /etc/rstudio/rserver.conf and add this line:
## rsession-which-r=/apps/R/3.2/bin/R

## restart rstudio
sudo /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rstudio-server restart

## pkg upgrade 
upgrade(packageStatus())
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

installr_2.sh

## make a dir to install
sudo mkdir -m 775 /apps
chown sahilseth /apps

## download to a tmp space
cd /tmp
wget https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/R-devel.tar.gz
tar -zxvf R-devel.tar.gz
cd R-devel
./configure --prefix /apps/R/devel/ --enable-R-shlib --enable-R-profiling \
  --enable-memory-profiling --enable-R-static-lib --enable-BLAS-shlib \
  --enable-long-double --with-cairo --with-libpng --with-jpeglib \
  --with-x --with-tcltk

## install
make
make pdf
make info
make install


## change the group
chgrp admin -R /apps/

## change /etc/rstudio/rserver.conf and add this line:
## rsession-which-r=/apps/R/3.2/bin/R

## restart rstudio
sudo /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rstudio-server restart

## pkg upgrade 
upgrade(packageStatus())
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

libreadline seems essential, without it keystrokes are not recognized properly.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/18590261