For the (Advanced) R Crash Course of the Data Science for Actuaries program, we will use the Ubuntu virtual machine. There might be some issues when installing some packages… One trick can be to open a terminal

and then to use the sudo command, to install some packages,

(after entering the password). Just type (or copy/paste)

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-*
update-alternatives --config java
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude install libgdal-dev
sudo aptitude install libproj-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install curl
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rgl
sudo apt-get install r-cran-plyr r-cran-xml r-cran-reshape r-cran-reshape2 r-cran-rmysql
sudo apt-get install r-cran-rjava
sudo apt-get install r-cran-glmnet
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-boot
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-class
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-cluster
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-codetools
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-foreign
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-kernsmooth
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-lattice
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-mass
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-matrix
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-mgcv
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-nlme
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-nnet
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rpart
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-spatial
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-survival
sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-rodbc
sudo apt-get build-dep

Then, in RStudio, enter

install.packages("RCurl")
install.packages("xml")
install.packages("rJava")
install.packages("rgdal")
install.packages("xlsx")
install.packages("devtools")


It should be fine…