Installing R using Cygwin

R is amazing platform which many numerical methods and analysis options available

This article explains how to use R in Windows using Cygwin

Reason for Cygwin, it has X11 and Cygwin-X with amazing setup selection tools and many libraries

Below are the installation steps

Step 1: Download and install Cygwin and dependencies

Double click the setup will launch 
Press Next in all the windows 
For Download Site choose
http://mirrors.kernel.org

Pressing next will show software selection window as shown below

Step 2: Install R
Choose Category View
Expand Math as shown below
In Newer Version R will be inside Science Category

Scroll down and choose R 3.6.0-1 as show below

Then press next and next - R will be installed

Step 3: Check R 
open cygwin terminal and type below command

R --version

You should get below output or similar output

R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26) -- "Planting of a Tree"
Copyright (C) 2019 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-cygwin (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
For more information about these matters see
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Step 4: Hello World R

create a file with below code and save with "R" extension, "test.R"

myString <- "Hello, World!"

print ( myString)

then issue below command

Rscript test.R

you will get the below output

[1] "Hello, World!"

That's all, your R is ready for development!!