I wanted to try Linux system thus I formatted an old laptop bought 7 years ago (HP Pavilion dm3, French keyboard).
No doubt that I need R and RStudio to be installed on this laptop…
Install R
Software Center
In the software center, you can easily find an official R app under Category “Science & Engineering :: Mathematics”.
Installed that, I tried to installed packages “dplyr” but failed - error message told me that the current version is ver. 3.0.x…
That definitely doesn’t meet my needs because I’m using ver. 3.2.2 on WIN7. We need to remove it and reinstall it by cmd line.
Cmd Lines
On Cran-R homepage, there is an index led to Ubuntu installation instruction.
The first thing to do is to “add an entry in your /etc/apt/sources.list file” (one of the 3 lines below, anyone is OK):