R 3.3.3 released with new features and bug fixes - Install R base on Ubuntu

R (also known as GNU S) is a free open source programing software environment used for statistical computation and graphics. R-base ubuntu runs on a variety of Linux platforms, Windows and MacOS. Furthermore, it consists of a run-time environment with graphics, debugger, ability to run programs stored in script files and access to certain system functions.

Before we proceed on how to install r 3.3.3 ubuntu, let's see what new features comes with this latest release and bugfixes addressed.

R 3.3.3 Changelog

New Features

Changes when redirection of a http:// URL to a https:// URL is encountered:

• The internal methods of download.file()

  and

  url()

  now report that they cannot follow this (rather than failing silently).

• (Unix-alike) download.file(method = "auto")

  (the default) re-tries with

  method = "libcurl"

  .

• (Unix-alike) url(method = "default")

  with an explicit

  open

  argument re-tries with

  method = "libcurl"

  . This covers many of the usages, e.g.

  readLines()

  with a URL argument.

Others

• The configure

  check for the

  zlib

  version is now robust to versions longer than 5 characters, including

  1.2.11

  .

• (C-level Native routine registration.) The undocumented styles

  field of the components of

  R_CMethodDef

  and

  R_FortranMethodDef

  is deprecated

Bug Fixes

• Package installation into a library where the package exists via symbolic link now should work when  Sys.readlink()

  works

• Fix buffer overflow vulnerability in pdf()

  when loading an encoding file

• getDLLRegisteredRoutines()

  now produces its warning correctly when multiple DLLs match

• Sys.timezone()

  now returns non-NA also on platforms such as Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

• On some systems, very small hexadecimal numbers in hex notation would underflow to zero

See release note for full list

How to Install R 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04 as well as Ubuntu 14.04

• Follow the steps below to download rbase and install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev

How to uninstall R 3.3.3 from Ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove r-base r-base-dev