

install libxml2-dev and libcurl4-openssl-devīefore install R package RCurl and XML, first we need to install libxml2-dev and libcurl4-openssl-dev sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev Or install dependencies from source see e.g. Sudo apt-get install libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable To install the dependencies on Ubuntu, either add ubuntugis-unstable to the package repositories: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties install libxml2-dev and libcurl4-openssl-devĬonfigure Ubuntu install ubuntugis on Ubuntu.Secondly, once I figure out what RSTudio is looking for, how do I redirect RStudio to that location? The export $RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/usr/bin/R instruction didn't seem to work.

So now I have three different R-related directories/files on my computer (that I know of), and don't know which one RStudio wants.

It looked like it was about to put it in /usr/lib/R/site-library, but then it prompted me to create a personal library in my home directory. Which path do I give it? I tried installing an R package earlier just to see where it would end up. So I'm not exactly sure what RStudio is looking for. But then there's also a directory called R in /usr/lib. I was able to find a bash script called R in /usr/bin. So I've got two questions about how to proceedįirstly, how do I find out where on my computer R (version 3.6) is stored? Note that in order for RStudio to see this environment variable when launched from the Ubuntu desktop Applications menu (as opposed to from a terminal) it must be defined in the ~/.profile file.īut I didn't think this was an issue because I was launching from the terminal, not from the desktop application I tried following the instructions here ( ), although I wasn't able to do the last step I managed to update the version of R on my computer to 3.6 (when I type R -version in my terminal, I get version 3.6), but when I check the version in RStudio using the version command, it tells me it's using 3.4.3.

I installed RStudio through Anaconda manager.
