Installation of the Code Repository

Setting up the Ubuntu VM

First you need to get your basic prerequisites:

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install r-base gdebi-core

Setting up the R Environment

sudo apt install r-base

You can check the version using

R --version

Then, you want to head to the RStudio Website and download the Ubuntu 18 file and save it to your downloads folder.

Then, using gdebi install RStudio and it's dependencies:

sudo gdebi <rstudio local file here>

Setting up the RStudio Project

Some files in the project won't be tracked, which includes the RStudio project file, so a new project will have to be created every time you set up a new device.

Installing RStudio Dependencies

First, open the app.js file and install the dependencies that the file needs. You will need to run the following commands in order to prevent the errors and have the right packages for the installation to go through.

Linux/Ubuntu Commands

sudo apt-get install curl
sudo apt-get install libcurl14-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

Windows Commands

winget install curl