How To Install R-RInside on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-RInside on CentOS 8.
What is R-RInside
The RInside packages makes it easier to have “R inside” your C++ application by providing a C++ wrapper class providing the R interpreter.
We can use yum or dnf to install R-RInside on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install R-RInside.
Install R-RInside on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install R-RInside using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install R-RInside
Install R-RInside on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install R-RInside using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install R-RInside
How To Uninstall R-RInside on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the R-RInside package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove R-RInside
R-RInside Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/4c21a730a511e5781ca0466446b01a80097bdf
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/4c21a730a511e5781ca0466446b01a80097bdf.1
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/DESCRIPTION
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/INDEX
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/Meta
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/Meta/Rd.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/Meta/features.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/Meta/hsearch.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/Meta/links.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/Meta/nsInfo.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/Meta/package.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/NAMESPACE
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/NEWS.Rd
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/R
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/R/RInside
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/R/RInside.rdb
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/R/RInside.rdx
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/THANKS
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/help
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/help/AnIndex
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/help/RInside.rdb
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/help/RInside.rdx
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/help/aliases.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/help/paths.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/html
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/html/00Index.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/html/R.css
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/html/RInside-package.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/libs
/usr/lib64/R/library/RInside/libs/RInside.so
/usr/lib64/libRInside.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-RInside on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.