I need to upgrade my current R 3.4 to R 3.5+ on Ubuntu 16.04. Here is how.
Step 1: Add the repo
Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list to obtain the latest R 3.6 packages.
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deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran35/
deb http://cran.rstudio.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran35/
Step 2: Upgrade to R 3.6
Run the following commands to install the R
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base
Users who need to compile R packages from source [e.g. package maintainers, or anyone installing packages with install.packages()] should also install the r-base-dev package:
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sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
Step 3: Upgrade to specific R version (Optional)
If you want to upgrade to a specific version, run
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apt-cache showpkg r-base
The output is something like
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Package: r-base
Versions:
3.6.1-3xenial (/var/lib/apt/lists/cloud.r-project.org_bin_linux_ubuntu_xenial-cran35_Packages) (/var/lib/apt/lists/cran.rstudio.org_bin_linux_ubuntu_xenial-cran35_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Description Language:
File: /var/lib/apt/lists/au.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_xenial_universe_binary-amd64_Packages
MD5: 5787ca79ed716232c4cc2087ed9b425b
Then run
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sudo apt-get install -f r-base=3.6.1-3xenial
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