Installing R

R is distributed via Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). The macOS version can be downloaded from here, https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/, whereas the Linux one is available here: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/.

Download the version appropriate for your machine and follow the installation instructions on the screen. For the macOS version, you can choose to install just the R core packages without the GUI and everything else as Spark does not require those.