How To Install R-littler on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install R-littler in Fedora 36. R-littler is littler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install R-littler on Fedora 36.

What is `R-littler`

A scripting and command-line front-end is provided by ‘r’ (aka ’littler’) as a lightweight binary wrapper around the GNU R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. While R can be used in batch mode, the r binary adds full support for both ‘shebang’-style scripting (i.e. using a hash-mark-exclamation-path expression as the first line in scripts) as well as command-line use in standard Unix pipelines. In other words, r provides the R language without the environment.

We can use yum or dnf to install R-littler on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install R-littler.

Install R-littler on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install R-littler using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install R-littler

Install R-littler on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install R-littler using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install R-littler

How To Uninstall R-littler on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the R-littler package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove R-littler

R-littler Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/r
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/d7a6f5daf984f269b24b99c47ebc96a2a38f46
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/DESCRIPTION
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/INDEX
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/Meta
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/Meta/Rd.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/Meta/features.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/Meta/hsearch.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/Meta/links.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/Meta/nsInfo.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/Meta/package.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/Meta/vignette.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/NAMESPACE
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/NEWS.Rd
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/R
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/R/littler
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/R/littler.rdb
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/R/littler.rdx
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/doc
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/doc/index.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/doc/littler-examples.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/doc/littler-examples.md
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/doc/littler-faq.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/doc/littler-faq.md
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/help
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/help/AnIndex
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/help/aliases.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/help/littler.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/help/littler.rdb
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/help/littler.rdx
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/help/paths.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/help/r.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/html
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/html/00Index.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/html/R.css
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/html/littler.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/littler/html/r.html
/usr/share/man/man1/r.1.gz

References

R-littler website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install R-littler on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).