Most of the information that follows is taken from the R Installation and Administration Managing libraries section. If you are logged into a linux machine in the 346 SH lab or a faculty/RA/TA box in SH, your R_LIBS environment variable has been set already to include the statsoft collection. Those packages are in /group/statsoft/Rlibs or /group/statsoft/Rlibs64 depending on the architecture of the machine. On the managed Linux machines in the Statistics department there are a number of add-on packages for R that are managed by the statsoft group. In the last step, we type R and press enter to work on R editor.Installing additional R packages on Linux In the second step, we will install R file in our system with the help of sudo apt-get install r-base as: In the first step, we have to update all the required files in our system using sudo apt-get update command as: There are only three steps to install R in Linux Once the downloading is finished, we have to run the setup of R in the following way:ġ) Select the path where we want to download the R and proceed to Next.Ģ) Select all components which we want to install, and then we will proceed to Next.ģ) In the next step, we have to select either customized startup or accept the default, and then we proceed to Next.Ĥ) When we proceed to next, our installation of R in our system will get started:ĥ) In the last, we will click on finish to successfully install R in our system. When we click on Download R 3.6.1 for windows, our downloading will be started of R setup. There are following steps used to install the R in Windows:įirst, we have to download the R setup from. To install R, either we can get it from the site or can use commands from the terminal. In some Linux distributions, R is installed by default, which we can verify from the console by entering R. The official site provides binary files for major operating systems including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. First, we must know which operating system we are using so that we can download it accordingly. Installing R to the local computer is very easy. R and RStudio works together to create a project on R. R programming is a very popular language and to work on that we have to install two things, i.e., R and RStudio.