What is the best package manager for R in a headless (no GUI) Linux server environment? @anacondainc only has R v3.6. Does one just install it piece by piece, starting w/ sudo apt install r-base? linuxize.com/post/how-to-ins… #rstats cc @justine_ryu @shaan_khurshid @jpirruccello

How to Install R on Ubuntu 20.04

This article covers the steps required to install R on Ubuntu 20.04. R is an open-source programming language and free environment that specializes in statistical computing and graphical representa...

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Replying to @erikrtn @anacondainc @justine_ryu @shaan_khurshid @jpirruccello
My choice is #Rstats on Ubuntu with bspm. E.g. docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-bspm:20.04 \ bash -c 'apt update -qq; install.r dplyr rstan' just installed `dplyr` and `rstan` plus all depends onto @Ubuntu LTS 20.04 as binaries _in 1 min_ including a package data update.

Jun 6, 2021 Β· 4:59 PM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel @anacondainc @justine_ryu @shaan_khurshid @jpirruccello @ubuntu
Awesome, thank you. Another layer here is doing everything in @Docker which I wholly endorse.
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Yes. But I showed Docker here because it makes the example self-contained. I run the same setup (which maybe I should document again outside of this Dockerfile) on another machine and it just *rocks* so hard that the usual `update.packages()` then pulls _binaries_. #rstats
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