Installing R with Homebrew

Question

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

Answer 1

You can also install R from this page:

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

It works out of the box

Answer 2

brew install homebrew/science/r

works on OS X 10.11.6.

Answer 3

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

This way, everything is packager managed, so there's no need to manually download and install anything.

Answer 4

If you meant "r" specifically:
It was migrated from homebrew/science to homebrew/core.

For r 3.4.3 Mac High Sierra:

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

Answer 5

homebrew/science was deprecated So, you should use the following command.

brew tap brewsci/science

Answer 6

I am working MacOS 10.10. I have updated gcc to version 4.9 to make it work.

brew update
brew install gcc
brew reinstall r