R Installation in openSUSE – Step-by-step

Installing

2. 2. Enabling R Repo

   Enable R Repository for openSUSE GNU/Linux

   First, Set the OS Version with:

   VERSION=$(grep "^PRETTY_NAME" /etc/os-release | tr " " "_" | sed -e 's/PRETTY_NAME=//' | sed -e 's/"//g')

   And then to Setup it run:

   zypper addrepo -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel\:/languages\:/R\:/patched/$VERSION/ R-base

3. 3. Installing R

   Now to Install R on openSUSE
   Play:

   sudo zypper in R-base R-base-devel

   The R Packages are Installed in the /usr/local/lib/R/library Folder.
   And the Docs on /usr/share/doc/R.
   For more insight about the R Customization see -> the openSUSE R Online Documentation.
   To Search for other Add-ons use:

   zypper search R-*

4. 4. Installing Tidyverse

   Then to Install Tidyverse in openSUSE
   First, Install the Required Packages:

   sudo zypper in gcc libopenssl-devel libxml2-devel

   Then launch the R REPL Shell with:

   sudo R

   And then to Setup the complete Tidyverse Packages Set, simply play:

   install.packages("tidyverse", dependencies = TRUE)

   Finally, to Update the Software:

   update.packages(ask=FALSE)

   After you find the CRAN Packages under /usr/local/lib/R/library.