

With these dependencies in place, we’re ready to continue.

Step 1 - Installing System Dependencies for devtools Once these prerequisites are in place, you’re ready to begin. R installed, achieved by following step 1 of this R installation guide.To follow along with this tutorial, you will need an Ubuntu 18.04 server with: In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to install devtools and use it to install an R package directly from GitHub. The R community is known for continuously adding user-generated packages for specific areas of study, which makes it applicable to many fields. It is widely used for developing statistical software and performing data analysis.

A popular open-source programming language, R specializes in statistical computing and graphics.
