rhomebrew

Installing R with Homebrew

I'm trying to install R using Homebrew. I ran these commands which are recommended elsewhere on SO:

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install R

For brew tap homebrew/science, I'm receiving this error:

Error: Already tapped!

For the second command, I receive this:

Error: No available formula for r

Any suggestions?

Solution

  • As of 2017 / Brew 1.3.2 @ macOS Sierra 10.12.6 all you have to do is:

    $ brew install r

    You don't even need to tap homebrew/science since r is now a part of core formulae for the Homebrew (homebrew-core).

    It will also install all dependencies automatically:

    ==> Installing dependencies for r: gmp, mpfr, libmpc, isl, gcc

    There are two additional options you might want to know:

    --with-java
Build with java support
--with-openblas
Build with openblas support