Global installation of R

Statistics software R is installed globally and can be accessed typing R in the terminal.

Take some control over your R packages

To take some control over where you R packages are installed, you can add a package path in a .Renviron configuration file. Simply run the following commands in the terminal to create a directry for your packages and a .Renviron file in your home directory and add the library path to it:

# Create directory for R your libraries
mkdir -p ~/.R/library

# Create .Renviron file in home directory
echo "R_LIBS_USER=~/.R/library" >> ~/.Renviron

Take full control over your R packages

To take full control over your R packages and R versions, you can use a package manager like conda or renv.