swirl and its dependencies require R version 3.1.0 or later as well as a recent version of libcurl. This page is our attempt to collect any information that might be helpful to Linux users wanting to install swirl.
These instructions have been successfully tested on:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)
- Linux Mint 16 (Petra)