How to install R version 3.2.1 – collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I'm trying to install R version 3.2.1. I executed the following code

./configure --enable-R-shlib

followed by make command. But the following error is obtained.

/usr/bin/ld: ../appl/dchdc.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
../appl/dchdc.o: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Please help me to resolve this or let me know how to remove this specific version of R. Because when I run sudo apt-get --purge autoremove R,

E: Unable to locate package R

2 Answers

For a full list of steps to install a version from source, skip the following lines and read on with Install from source

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To install/remove the GNU R statistical computation and graphics system you need the package r-base.

Therefore

sudo apt-get install r-base

or

sudo apt-get purge r-base

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To install/remove the GNU R collection of recommended packages you need r-recommended

sudo apt-get install r-recommended 

or

sudo apt-get install r-recommended

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Install from source

The version 3.2.1 is in the Wily Universe repositories.

To install the version 3.2.1 on older Ubuntu versions, you have to compile the packages for yourself

1. Download and extract

   cd
   wget
   sudo apt-get install tcl tcl-dev tk-dev tk
   tar xf R-3.2.1.tar.gz
   cd R-3.2.1

2. Create a Makefile with configure and enable shared libraries (--enable-R-shlib) and Tcl/TK-support (--with-tcltk)

   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-R-shlib --with-tcltk

   or simply with (without shared libraries)

   ./configure

3. And start the build process

   make

4. After that, install. I prefer the installation with checkinstall, to create and install a deb package

   sudo apt-get install checkinstall
   sudo checkinstall

   But you could also use the standard way

   sudo make install

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And now, you have version 3.2.1 installed

 % /usr/local/bin/R
R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18) -- "World-Famous Astronaut"
Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. Natural language support but running in an English locale
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.
> 

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Install RStudio Desktop

Download the latest version here, e.g.

wget 

Install via

sudo dpkg -i rstudio-0.99.467-amd64.deb

Check the install output and install missing packages, e.g. in my case

sudo apt install libjpeg62

Start RStudio via Unity Dash or GNOME Activities or via command line

/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/rstudio

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If you encounter following error:

configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available

run this command:

sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

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