mara
September 19, 2018, 12:21pm
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Hi Paula,
I don't use Mint, so I don't have much in the way of concrete advice, but have you taken a look at the other threads on the site regarding getting RStudio running with Mint?
For example:
All attempts to upgrade R to 3.5.0 on Linux Mint 18.3 didn't work as (perhaps) there was not this version in the CRAN repository and mirrors, I downloaded and installed 3.5.0 in a directory, and pointed RStudio to it via adding the line export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/usr/bin/R in ~/.profile, as advised in https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200486138-Changing-R-versions-for-RStudio-desktop .
However, RStudio wouldn't use it, complaining:
R Not Found
R shared library (/usr/local/lib/R/lib/libR.so) not found. If this is a custom build of R, was it built with the --enable-R-shlib option?
How do I get RStudio to use this R 3.5.0?
This is the first time R didn't update to a newer version.
Checked sources.list / additional-repositories.list but could not find any errors or problems.
deb http://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/
What do I need to do/change?
Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Kernel: 4.15.0-15-generic x86_64
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9)
LinuxMint 18.3 is based mainly on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS