hubentu / conda-r-devel

conda recipe for r development version

R development version (4.0.0) conda recipe

• Copied from https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/blob/master/r-base
• Only tested on ubuntu 18.04 and miniconda3

Add forge channel.

conda config --add channels conda-forge

Howto

• Create r-devel env

git clone https://github.com/hubentu/conda-r-devel.git
cd conda-r-devel
conda create -n r-devel
conda activate r-devel

• Build and install From source

conda install conda-build
conda build .
conda install --use-local path/to/r-devel

Or just install the compiled version from ubuntu 18.04

conda install --use-local r-devel-4.0.0-0.tar.bz2
conda install readline

• Use R 4.0

conda activate r-devel
R --version