# R in Julia on Android works great :-) (Screenshot)

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/r-in-julia-on-android-works-great-screenshot/133719>\
**Category:** Statistics\
**Tags:** r, android\
**Created:** [November 6, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/r-in-julia-on-android-works-great-screenshot/133719 "2025-11-06T21:08:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Stein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mike_stein/32/219293_2.png) [@Mike\_Stein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mike_Stein)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/r-in-julia-on-android-works-great-screenshot/133719/1 "2025-11-06T21:08:48Z")

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Having fun with Julia and R setup in Termux on Android with RCall julia library and being able to toggle in between them.

For some reason not able to install.packages in R in Julia but not a big deal since can just install packages in regular R session in Termux on Android.

Fyi 🙂

 ![1117](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/0/3076be38ac5a47a9509967b6d10872d916531537.png)

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**Author:** ![kevbonham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kevbonham/32/216165_2.png) [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/r-in-julia-on-android-works-great-screenshot/133719/2 "2025-11-06T22:17:08Z")

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I remember doing this (at least the Julia part ) circa Julia 1.6, but at some point it stopped working on my device. Is there some documentation of the process online somewhere?

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Stein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mike_stein/32/219293_2.png) [@Mike\_Stein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mike_Stein)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/r-in-julia-on-android-works-great-screenshot/133719/3 "2025-11-06T23:12:40Z")

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Hi, @kevbonham .

I used the published manual installation suggestions:

> **[Platform Specific Instructions for Official Binaries](https://julialang.org/downloads/platform/)**
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> The official website for the Julia Language. Julia is a language that is fast, dynamic, easy to use, and open source. Click here to learn more.

And just changed the download package name to correspond to the aarch64 package name on the downloads page

I wasn’t able to install julia using recommended juliaup method (problem compiling on the device) but that might have been because at the time I didn’t have all the gnu build packages properly installed.

Once julia was installed, I was able to use julia’s standard package manager to install RCall and Conda. However, the package manger Pkg did initially have trouble compiling those packages but helpfully suggested I do

```julia-auto
Pkg.build("pkgOfInterest")

```

Which got the julia packages to compile. 🙂