Install R studio

For the latest R packages, add the R repository and key

echo "deb http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu `lsb_release -sc`/" | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cran.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9
sudo apt update
sudo apt install r-base


Prepare to Install R Studio

R Studio requires the JPEG runtime library, so install it.

   sudo apt install libjpeg62


Ubuntu 16.10 to 17.04 (64 bit)

wget --tries=3 --timeout=120 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gstreamer0.10/libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5_amd64.deb
wget --tries=3 --timeout=120 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gst-plugins-base0.10/libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer0.10-0_0.10.36-1.5_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.36-2_amd64.deb
sudo apt-mark hold libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
sudo apt-mark hold libgstreamer0.10

Install R Studio

Download the binary version of R Studio and install.

Be sure to use the latest version in the wget command. You can get the URL for the latest release by right-clicking on the Ubuntu Debian installer near the bottom of the R Studio Download page.

(Desktop)
Ubuntu 16.04 to 17.10 and higher (64 Bit only)
wget --tries=3 --timeout=120 https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-xenial-1.1.383-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i rstudio-*-amd64.deb

(Server)
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
$ wget https://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-1.1.383-amd64.deb
$ sudo gdebi rstudio-server-1.1.383-amd64.deb

Optional

Prior to Ubuntu 17.10, if you want to show R or R Studio in the "Education" category in the Unity Dash, instead of the "Development" category, do the following, respectively.

sudo sed -i "s|Graphics;|Education;|g" /usr/share/applications/R.desktop
sudo sed -i "s|Development;|Education;Math;|g" /usr/share/applications/rstudio.desktop

sudo apt-get remove rstudio

groupadd: group 'rstudio-server' already exists
rsession: no process found
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rstudio-server.service → /etc/systemd/system/rstudio-server.service.
● rstudio-server.service - RStudio Server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rstudio-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-12-11 16:25:24 +07; 1s ago
Process: 14832 ExecStart=/usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 14840 (rserver)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 13.7M
CPU: 635ms
CGroup: /system.slice/rstudio-server.service
└─14840 /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver

Dec 11 16:25:24 modvm-varatchai-4t systemd[1]: Starting RStudio Server...
Dec 11 16:25:24 modvm-varatchai-4t systemd[1]: Started RStudio Server.