Install the Latest Version of R in Ubuntu

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sudo apt-add-repository -y "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

If apt-add-repository is not install yet, you can install it with the following command.

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common