Install latest stable version on ubuntu

[davi_d]

How do you get the path to the latest stable desktop version please?

https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/203842428-Getting-the-newest-RStudio-builds indicates a process to piece the relevant paths together but I have failed to get it to work. For example, neither of the following work:

http://www.rstudio.org/download/latest/stable/desktop/ubuntu64/rstudio-latest.amd64.deb
or
/////http://www.rstudio.org/download/latest/stable/desktop/ubuntu64/rstudio-desktop-latest.amd64.deb

(forward slashed at start to allow path to be added to question)

Thanks for any help, david

[technocrat]

A good recipe just needs an update to change xenial to your version.

[davi_d]

thanks @technocrat, but that is what I am trying to avoid. I can get the rstudio version number from the rstudio downloads page, however from the link in the question, it seems to be possible to download using some permutation of latest & stable without giving an exact version number.

[technocrat]

There’s a deb pkg manager for Ubuntu that allows installation from the rstudio.com file. See this

[davi_d]

Thanks again @technocrat.

I think I found a permutation that works. I made a mistake in the first link in the OP by using a period instead of a hyphen. This works:
http://www.rstudio.org/download/latest/stable/desktop/ubuntu64/rstudio-latest-amd64.deb

[technocrat]

Great! Please mark this as the solution! No false modesty!