RStudio can be installed from source, but it’s a headache. AUR seems to be for binary packages, which are supported by other distros, but packaged for Arch Labs. The second place is via AUR, which may be common knowledge to the rest, but to an arch labs noob like me, this is news. This is the first section of the pacli utility, namely options 1 to 8 as it currently stands. The first place is via pacman, which is ordinary packages. Not sure why it took me so long to get this, but in Arch Labs, there are two separate places from where you can install things. I’ll be trying this after my updates and I’ll give some feedback as to how I managed.įinally, done with Step 2. This information is available, but it’s a bit all over the place so now it is here all in one place. I tend to install packages as I need them and I messed up the steps, so my RStudio was installed but I didn’t install R first. You can also install from source, in which case a link to the source tarball is available on that link too. Find the binary page here: rstudio-desktop-bin. There is a binary available for RStudio so you can just install it via pacman.

This can be done in a few ways, so pick one from their website: How can R be installed Note that this may not be entirely accurate. Step by step installation - what I have so far My installation issue may be related to update issues I had, but nevertheless a terse guide to get up and running with R might be useful. I started a new topic because a forum search didn’t reveal any such guides and as I’d been having some trouble with this, I thought it might help someone (or me!) to have a topic. The purpose of this topic is to serve as a guideline to install R and RStudio.

Installing rstudio on linux