Resolve the installation problem of "rmongodb"

Being a new user of R as well as MongoDB, I wanted to make a mongoDB database connection with R but had to struggle before I could successfully establish the connection.

The version of R what I was using was 3.0.1, being old version whenever I was trying to install install.packages("rmongodb"), I was getting some error. Ultimately I had to upgrade the version of R using the following step and then I was able to install rmongodb package.

• sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
• add the following line as I am using the version 14.04.2 (use the command lsb_release -c to see the name)
• deb http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
•  gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get upgrade

Now new version is installed, within R I isuued the command sessionInfo(), which shows the R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18).

Now use the following command to install mongodb package and connect to MongoDB

• install.packages("rmongodb")
• library(rmongodb)

• To connect to local mongoD

• mongo <- mongo.create()

Will keep on posting as I proceed towards using R, Shiny and MongoDB.