Install R in Fedora 23

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is widely used among statisticians and data miners and seems to be ever growing in popularity.
R is also going to be incorporated into SQL Server 2016.

This is a short post which details how to install R and the R studio IDE in Fedora 23.

The R package is in the fedora repo (R-3.2.2-1.fc23.x86_64).

To install type -

sudo dnf install R

When I tried this I got the following error.

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Error: package R-3.2.2-1.fc23.x86_64 requires R-devel = 3.2.2-1.fc23, but none of the providers can be installed

This was easily resolved by running the distro sync command. This command synchronize packages to the current repositories.

sudo dnf distro-sync

sudo dnf install R

RStudio IDE is a powerful and productive user interface for R. It’s free and open source, and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

The latest version can be download straight from the R Studio website.

sudo dnf install https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-0.99.491-x86_64.rpm

R Studio - http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/desktop

Now you have successfully installed it, you can get started via the great tutorial from code school.

Code School - http://tryr.codeschool.com/