appendix A Installing R
This appendix contains basic information on installing R.
Windows
Visit the R for Windows download page at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base, and download the executible installer. Double-click that file to begin the install process, and follow any prompts.
Mac
Visit the R for Mac OS X/macOS download page at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx, and download the relevant binary .pkg file for your system. Install by double-clicking this file and following the prompts.
Linux
apt-get update apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
yum update yum install R
From source
As open source software, the source code for R can also be downloaded from the SVN repository at https://svn.r-project.org/R and compiled. You can even make changes to it as you see fit (if you know how).
R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s General Public License in source code form.
—R-Project, https://www.r-project.org/about.html