I am trying to set up a new Ubuntu 20.04 server (to replace an older 18.04 server) which needs to have the R
statistics system and, in particular, the r-cran-tidyverse
package installed.
I am using the CRAN repository as it seems to be recommended, for R packages, in preference to Ubuntu's own repository, as the CRAN repo has more packages available.
I have added the repo:
echo "deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/focal-cran40.list
and imported its security key
# apt-key may fail because of firewall restrictions, so try
gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
#
# Do not forget the trailing dash!
gpg -a --export E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
and then installed the base packages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base
So far, so good.
My notes for Ubuntu 18.04 said, to add marutter
's repo for additional R packages, to do:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/c2d4u3.5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-cran-tidyverse
It looks as though (from the CRAN page linked above) that the marutter
repos (or another additional R repos) have changed since then.
Is it now the cran2deb4ubuntu 4.0 (c2d4u4.0+) repo that I need to use instead to install r-cran-tidyverse
(following the instructions on that repo's page)?
r-base and r-cran-tidyverse are provided by the default repositories in Ubuntu 20.04. Open the terminal and type: