install the most recent version of R, rstudio and the tidyverse on ubuntu 18.04

install-rstudio.sh

#!/bin/bash
# usage: sudo true && curl -sL bit.ly/mlgrm-install-rstudio | bash

set -e

sudo apt install software-properties-common

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
    --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9

sudo apt-add-repository \
    "deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/"

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y \
    r-base \
    r-base-dev \
    r-recommended \
    libjpeg62 \
    libjpeg-turbo8-dev \
    libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

xdg-open https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download 
#url=$(
#curl -sL https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download | \
#    grep -E "https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-(xenial|bionic)-[0-9.]+-amd64.deb" | \
#    grep -o '".*"' | \
#    tr -d '"'
#)

#deb=$(mktemp --suffix .deb)
#curl -sL $url > $deb

#sudo dpkg -i $deb

sudo Rscript -e "install.packages('devtools')"
sudo Rscript -e "install.packages('tidyverse')"