Installing R 3.5.0 with --enable-R-shlib

Question

I am trying to install R 3.5.0 from source with the flag --enable-R-shlib under Linux Mint. Configuring and installing it without the flag works fine, but RStudio requires t

Answer 1

After adding these PPAs for Ubuntu, I was able to update R to 3.5.0 for my Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter3.5
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/c2d4u
sudo apt-get update

Ref: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

Edit: To compile from source, follow the suggestion here

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep r-base
wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.5.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf R-3.5.0.tar.gz
cd R-3.5.0
./configure --enable-R-shlib
make