Installing latest R(3.2.5) on Debian Jessie

Installing R on Ubuntu/Debian is quite painful, especially when you want to install the latest version. I have no clue why this situation stills for a long time, but this is a way to work around.

On terminal:

# Appends the CRAN repository to your sources.list file 
# You could replace jessie-cran3 by the newer one
# Find the correct value at https://cloud.r-project.org/
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

# Adds the CRAN GPG key, which is used to sign the R packages for security.
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 381BA480
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev

Installing h2o:

You probably need Java

# install OpenJDK 8
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

# install Oracle JDK 8
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
# or make sure that JDK 8 is default
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
# or not
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends oracle-java8-installer

Now:

# to retrieve curl-config
# otherwise you may have a problem with RCurl
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

# in R
install.packages ("h2o")

Published: April 19 2016

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