R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

• Version: 3.5.1
• Added: February, 2015
• Updated: July, 2018
• Link: https://www.r-project.org/

See versions of R that are available:

$ module avail R

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load R/3.5.1
$ R

Here is a good resource on installing R packages into user libraries.

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ wget http://cran.mirror.ac.za/src/base/R-3/R-3.5.1.tar.gz
$ tar xf R-3.5.1.tar.gz
$ cd R-3.5.1
$ sudo yum install gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ libX11-devel libXaw-devel bzip2-devel libcurl-devel xz-devel readline-devel
$ ./configure --enable-R-shlib --prefix=/export/apps/R/3.5.1
$ make -j4
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/R/3.5.1
$ sudo chown aorth:aorth /export/apps/R/3.5.1
$ make install
$ sudo chown -R root:root /export/apps/R/3.5.1