Install Pagoda prerequisties

install-pagoda-prerequisites.sh

#! /usr/bin/env bash

# pixman
wget https://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.34.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf pixman-0.34.0.tar.gz
cd pixman-0.34.0/
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-static
make
make install
export pixman_CFLAGS="-I$HOME/local/include/pixman-1"
export pixman_LIBS="-L$HOME/local/lib -lpixman-1"

# cairo
wget https://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.14.8.tar.xz
tar -xvf cairo-1.14.8.tar.xz
cd cairo-1.14.8/
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-static --enable-tee
make
make install
export CAIRO_CFLAGS="-I$HOME/local/include/cairo"
export CAIRO_LIBS="-L$HOME/local/lib -lcairo"

# boost
cd $HOME/install
wget https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.66.0/source/boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2
tar -xvf boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_66_0/
ln -s $HOME/install/boost_1_66_0/boost $HOME/local/include/
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=$HOME/local
./b2
 ./b2 install --prefix=$HOME/local

 # gsl
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-2.4.tar.gz
tar -xvf gsl-2.4.tar.gz
cd gsl-2.4
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install

# let ipython see R

# within R
install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('IRkernel/IRkernel')
IRkernel::installspec(name='ir34', displayname='R 3.4')

This is for the Pagoda 2 package.

See this walkthrough for installing R.