How to use R with Google Colaboratory?

Question

Google Colaboratory supports Python version 2.7 and 3.6

I see an example how to use Swift in Colab a while ago.

Today, I happened to run

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Answer 1

*****Working as of Friday 13th November 2020

Go this URL https://colab.to/r whilst signed into colab and that should do it.

You can check if R in Runtime -> Change runtime type, but it should already be setup.

To mount google drive:

install.packages("googledrive")
library("googledrive")

if (file.exists("/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/google/colab/_ipython.py")){ 
  install.packages("R.utils")
  library("R.utils")
  library("httr")
  my_check <- function() {return(TRUE)}
  reassignInPackage("is_interactive", pkgName = "httr", my_check)
  options(rlang_interactive=TRUE)
}                                                                                    

And authenticate google drive

drive_auth(use_oob = TRUE, cache = TRUE)