post/installing-r-on-android-via-termux/

[utterances-bot]

Installing R on Android via Termux | Conor I. Anderson

Get a full IDE experience in R on Android.

https://conr.ca/post/installing-r-on-android-via-termux/

[ConorIA]

I've recently changed from Disqus to Utterances. Sorry, but old comments from this post are gone.

[BenWiseman]

E: Unable to locate package r-base
E: Unable to locate package gcc-9
E: Unable to locate package libgfortran3

[ConorIA]

Sounds like you're missing the pointless repo. See the first code block or try https://its-pointless.github.io/setup-pointless-repo.sh

[mike-lawrence]

Just a heads-up for folks that while termux is still on the google play store, the addons are no longer supported for installs from there. They recommend you install from f-droid now. Also, I suggest folks first install openssh so they can remote into their device to run all the commands (I painstakingly typed all the commands before thinking of that :P)

[mike-lawrence]

Oh, and best to install tidyverse via pkg install r-cran-tidyverse

[mcastagnaa]

What solved all the termux issues by doing termux-change-repo and then pkg upgrade. Then you need to switch back to the default repo for the rest.

[NaturallyAsh]

It works! Bless you mate!!

Can confirm, works as of 2021-10-01 after running apt upgrade before installing the packages. Thank you so much.

[NaturallyAsh]

Also run apt-get update after running the first code block. I kept getting an error saying it couldn't locate r-base. After running apt-get update it worked.

Did work for me before, but currently doesn't given the release of libicu 70.1

[ConorIA]

Yes the version of R on the pointless repo was compiled with an earlier version, so the only solution is to re-compile R, or wait for a new version to hit the repos. Related issue: its-pointless/gcc_termux#137

[NaturallyAsh]

Haven't tried it yet but the below method is confirmed to be working.
its-pointless/gcc_termux#135 (comment)

@ConorIA @NaturallyAsh Thank you so much. I did get it working on AnLinux and am still waiting on the new version Conor speaks of. Tried NaturallyAsh's suggestion but it failed to compile on my particular setup. Thanks again anyway.

[MalabiLesley]

$ R
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R": library "libicuuc.so.69" not found
Aborted

How can I solve that

[ConorIA]

$ R CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R": library "libicuuc.so.69" not found Aborted

There is a library version mismatch. It looks like this was reported back in 2021 (see: its-pointless/gcc_termux#137).

In 2021, I commented that I expected a new version of the R package would be published, but it seems like that didn't happen (maybe @its-pointless has abandoned the project?). Other commenters seem to have had success compiling R from source: its-pointless/gcc_termux#135 (comment)

As noted in my blog, you could also use something like AnLinux to install a different Linux distro in termux and use that distro's native R package.