[SOLVED]Unable to install R >3.5 into Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa" (Ubuntu Bionic)

[takheru]

To all my colleagues,

I have just migrated to linux OS from Windows. The OS I chose is Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa". The built in R for the version is 3.4.4.

With that said, 3.4.4 has many incompatible packages (such as "car"), which often are prerequisite for subsequent packages. I have tried to look for ways to circumvent this problem, but there are quite a lot of packages which are only R =>3.5 compatible. Even some do not have archive for R <3.5.

I also looked into ways to remove (purge) R 3.4.4 from my system, but to no avail as a lot of the dir is different from ubuntu. Some Linux Mint forums also mentioned the instability of R > 3.5

May I know anyone using LinuxMint that has successfully upgrade to R >3.5? If so, can anyone please guide me to do it? Or is there anyway to circumvent this issue?

Thank you very much for your attention.

Cheers,
Boo

[andresrcs]

Since Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu Bionic I think you can install the latest R version by adding the CRAN repository for Ubuntu to your sources.list file, run these commands in your system terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

[takheru]

Thank you very much sir!
It worked well,
but the first line is different for Linux Mint as the terminal use another type of library

Here I include the Linux Mint 19.1 script for installing R 3.6.1

echo -e "\ndeb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

Thank you very much!
Cheers,
Boo