Hi all,
I had installed r'base and rstudio and they worked fine on Mint Quianna.
after two weeks after two weeks of not having used them i got a message 'unable to locate a binary file' when trying to run Rstudio.
No, it's a global setting. RStudio Server Pro has support for the PAM session API, which you could use to implement user-specific LDLIBRARYPATH. I noted that your GitHub affiliation lists Stanford University - RStudio Server Pro is free for teaching and 1/2 price for academic research if that helps here. RStudio Support. When I start RStudio Desktop I get the message “unable to locate R binary by scanning standard location”? You first need to. Run R studio; Click on the Packages tab in the bottom-right section and then click on install. The following dialog box will appear; In the Install Packages dialog, write the package name you want to install under the Packages field and then click install. Unable to install Rstudio. I have installed R 4.0.1 in my windows 7 64 bit os. After installing Rstudio - it prompts 'The program cant start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1l-0.dll is missing from your computer.Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem' but i am installing Rstudio for the first time. Kindly provide the solution.Thank you. Install packages into a different library tree owned by the account used to install R. For an installation to be used by a single user, the simplest way is to make use of a ‘personal library’: See I don't have permission to write to the R-4.1.0 library directory.
I unistalled it and started by reinstall the r-base from http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/r-base I got the following message :
Can not install r-base (E: unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.)
tryied upt-get upgrade and update , no results.
I use it in a course.
Please your help,
thanks
The Linux operating system is a great platform for computing. However, it takes some efforts for users who migrate from other operating systems (e.g., Windows) to get started. For example, when I migrated to Linux, I spent quite some time trying to understand how to install the latest version of R on the system. For those of you who are in the same situation like I was, I am writing this tutorial to help. In this tutorial, I will not only show you how it’s done, but will also inform you why each step is necessary, so that you can get a better understanding.
This tutorial is based on Ubuntu, which is perhaps the most popular Linux distribution. Before diving in, here’s something you need to know: (1) most Linux distributions including Ubuntu include a program called bash that runs various kinds of commands such as those for software/package management, e.g., apt; (2) you should not confuse package installation using the apt install command in a bash session (which can be invoked by pressing CTRL+ALT+T) and that using the install.packages() function in an R session (which can be invoked by entering R in a bash session).
You can install the r-base package, which includes the essential components of R, using the apt install command. By default, the command will search and install the components from a repository called Universe. However, the version of R included in this repository is typically not up-to-date. Alternatively, you can tell apt install to obtain the latest version from a CRAN repository. This can be achieved by first adding the following entry in your /etc/apt/sources.list file in a new line (you can run a text editor as root, e.g., sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list, to add the entry):
Note that you should replace <my.favorite.cran.mirror> with one of the urls provided by this site; replace <code-name-adjective> with your Ubuntu release code name adjective (see here for a full list). For example, to obtain the latest R 4.0 packages, add an entry like
or
or
After adding the entry, you will also need to add a key to your system so that apt can perform signature checking of the Release File for the added repository to verify its authenticity. The CRAN repository for Ubuntu is signed with the key of “Michael Rutter [email protected]” (see https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html). To add the key, enter the following command in bash:
Now that the setup is done, you can install the latest version of R (remember to first update package index files from the repository):
Now, you should be able to open R by entering R in bash.
After the installation of the core packages, you would typically want to install additional R packages using the install.packages() function in R. However, the function depends on the r-base-dev package to compile source code for some R packages. Therefore, prior to using the install.packages() function, you should first install the r-base-dev package. Like r-base, the r-base-dev package can be installed in a bash session:
Now, you should be able to install most R packages using the install.packages() function in R.
You are perhaps aware that, when you install an R package that depends on other uninstalled R package(s), the install.packges() function will automatically install all the required packages at once, even if you don’t explicitly tell it to.
However, things are different when you install an R package that depends on other uninstalled non-R package(s). Under this circumstance, you will always need to manually install the required package(s) before you use the install.packages() function.
A good example would be an R package called tidyverse. In case you don’t know, the tidyverse is a set of R packages (e.g., ggplot2, dplyr, …) developed for data science (e.g., data visualization, data manipulation, …) under a tidy and elegant design philosophy. You can visit the home page for more information.
In short, the tidyverse package requires the following non-R packages: libcurl4-openssl-dev, libssl-dev, libxml2-dev. Like r-base and r-base-dev, you can install them in bash:
Now, you should be able to install tidyverse in R using the install.packages() function:
If you are looking for an integrated development environment (IDE) for R, I recommend Rstudio. The installation of Rstudio is simple and straightforward. First, download an installer for your system from here. Second, double-click the installer (the installer for Ubuntu should have a file extension “.deb”) and follow the instructions. The whole process is very straightforward so I am not going into the details here.
If you need to use R on a remote Linux server, you’ll probably need RStudio Server as well. Briefly speaking, RStudio Server provides a browser based interface to R running on a remote Linux server. To use RStudio Server, you’ll need to following steps on the remote server.
First of all, since RStudio Server by default does not allows system users (such as root) to authenticate, you need a normal user account with sudo privilege1 on the server. The following code shows how to create one:
Second, install gdebi2 and RStudio Server (you can find <deb_package_url> from here):
If you installed RStudio using a package manager binary (e.g. a Debian package or RPM) then RStudio is automatically registred as a deamon which starts along with the rest of the system. However, if you need to manually stop, start, and restart the serve, here’s how:
R Studio Unable To Locate Binary After Installed
There are a number of administrative commands which allow you to see what sessions are active and request suspension of running sessions (note that session data is not lost during a suspend):
After the above steps, you should be able to access RStudio Server through the web browser of your local machine. To do so, just enter the ip address (including port number; by default, RStudio Server listens on port 8787) of your remote machine.
In this post, I demonstrated and explained the process of installing R, as well as relevant components on Ubuntu. Once you are familiar with the concepts, you should be able to install additional R packages with more ease.
R Studio Unable To Locate Binary After Installing
The sudo privilege is needed because you need to install various packages.↩
This package handles the installation of RStudio and its dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu.↩