If you are looking for a 290,000 character long whiny blogpost where I cover how to install R 4.0 and tidyverse on Ubuntu 20.04, then maybe you want to read this. TL;DR it's too difficult to install for most users. #rstats emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=8783

Installing R on Ubuntu 20.04: still too damn difficult

Here's a whiny post on annoying R features. I love R and all, but it's obnoxious to install. Not only does it take a long time to compile so many packages, this step typically has to be repeated a...

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It can be easy. I just installed #rstats 4.0.0 and full #tidyverse in an "empty" @ubuntu 20.04 @docker instance on @awscloud (ie good bandwidth) in ~ 2 1/2 mins via the five lines of code in the image below (cf CRAN Ubuntu README).

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