How To Install R-pak on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install R-pak in Fedora 36. R-pak is Another Approach to Package Installation

Introduction

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

What is `R-pak`

The goal of ‘pak’ is to make package installation faster and more reliable. In particular, it performs all HTTP operations in parallel, so metadata resolution and package downloads are fast. Metadata and package files are cached on the local disk as well. ‘pak’ has a dependency solver, so it finds version conflicts before performing the installation. This version of ‘pak’ supports CRAN, ‘Bioconductor’ and ‘GitHub’ packages as well.

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

Install R-pak 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-pak using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install R-pak

Install R-pak 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-pak using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install R-pak

How To Uninstall R-pak on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove R-pak

R-pak Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/R/library/pak
/usr/share/R/library/pak/DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/R/library/pak/INDEX
/usr/share/R/library/pak/Meta
/usr/share/R/library/pak/Meta/Rd.rds
/usr/share/R/library/pak/Meta/features.rds
/usr/share/R/library/pak/Meta/hsearch.rds
/usr/share/R/library/pak/Meta/links.rds
/usr/share/R/library/pak/Meta/nsInfo.rds
/usr/share/R/library/pak/Meta/package.rds
/usr/share/R/library/pak/NAMESPACE
/usr/share/R/library/pak/NEWS.md
/usr/share/R/library/pak/R
/usr/share/R/library/pak/R/pak
/usr/share/R/library/pak/R/pak.rdb
/usr/share/R/library/pak/R/pak.rdx
/usr/share/R/library/pak/WORDLIST
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/AnIndex
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/aliases.rds
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/lib_status.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/local_install.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/local_install_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/local_install_dev_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/local_package_trees.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pak.rdb
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pak.rdx
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pak_cleanup.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pak_package_sources.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pak_private_library.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pak_setup.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pak_sitrep.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/paths.rds
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pkg_install.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pkg_remove.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/pkg_status.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/proj_create.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/proj_install.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/proj_install_dev.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/proj_remove.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/help/proj_status.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/00Index.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/R.css
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/lib_status.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/local_install.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/local_install_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/local_install_dev_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/local_package_trees.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/pak_cleanup.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/pak_package_sources.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/pak_private_library.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/pak_setup.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/pak_sitrep.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/pkg_install.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/pkg_remove.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/pkg_status.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/proj_create.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/proj_install.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/proj_install_dev.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/proj_remove.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/html/proj_status.html
/usr/share/R/library/pak/tools
/usr/share/R/library/pak/tools/pkg_1.0.0.tgz
/usr/share/R/library/pak/tools/xxx
/usr/share/R/library/pak/tools/xxx.bz2
/usr/share/R/library/pak/tools/xxx.gz
/usr/share/R/library/pak/tools/xxx.tar.gz
/usr/share/R/library/pak/tools/xxx.xz
/usr/share/R/library/pak/tools/xxx.zip

References

R-pak website

Summary

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