How To Install RStudio IDE on Fedora 35

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install RStudio IDE on Fedora 35. For those of you who didn’t know, RStudio provides free and open-source tools for R and enterprise-ready professional software for data science teams to develop and share their work at scale. RStudio makes it easier to write Python, Shell, SQL scripts with syntax highlighting, code completion, and smart indentation.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of RStudio IDE on a Fedora 35.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Fedora 35.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install RStudio IDE on Fedora 35

Step 1. Before proceeding, update your Fedora operating system to make sure all existing packages are up to date. Use this command to update the server packages:

sudo dnf upgrade
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install openblas

Step 2. Installing R Programming Language.

Now we run the following command to install R programming:

sudo dnf install R

Verify installation R package:

R --version

Step 3. Installing RStudio IDE on Fedora 35.

By default, RStudio is available on Fedora 35 base repository. Now run the following command below to install RStudio IDE on your Fedora system:

sudo dnf install rstudio-desktop

Step 4. Accessing RStudio IDE on Fedora.

Once successfully installed, start it by going to Activities -> search for RStudio or by running the rstudio command in the terminal.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed RStudio IDE. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing RStudio IDE on your Fedora 35 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official RStudio website.