Installing R with Homebrew

r homebrew
duber picture duber · Dec 8, 2013 · Viewed 106.7k times · Source

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?

Answer

haddr picture haddr · Oct 20, 2014

As of 2017, it's just brew install r. See @Andrew's answer below.

As of 2014 (using an Yosemite), the method is the following:

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew install r

The gcc package (will be installed automatically as a required dependency) in the homebrew/science tap already contains the latest fortran compiler (gfortran), and most of all: the whole package is precompiled so it saves you a lot of compilation time.

This answer will also work for El Capitan and Mac OS Sierra.

In case you don't have XCode Command Line Tools (CLT), run from terminal: 

xcode-select --install

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