As detailed in this post, I recently installed Ubuntu on my old MacBookPro (assuming a MacBookPro from mid-2012 is old 😏). In order to run some simulations I needed to install the latest version of R. I first followed the procedure to install the latest R on Debian before realizing that the backport for Ubuntu are different 😁! So if you are on Ubuntu, the correct link to install the latest R is here. The 3-steps-procedure is pretty straight forward:

1. add

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deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35

2. add the key used to sign the archives on CRAN:

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$ apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9

3. install R

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$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install r-base

That’s all folks!