How To Install R-remotes on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install R-remotes in Fedora 36. R-remotes is R Package Installation from Remote Repositories

Introduction

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

What is `R-remotes`

Download and install R packages stored in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Bioconductor, or plain subversion or git repositories. This package provides the ‘install_*’ functions in devtools. Indeed most of the code was copied over from devtools.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install R-remotes

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

sudo yum -y install R-remotes

How To Uninstall R-remotes on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove R-remotes

R-remotes Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/R/library/remotes
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/INDEX
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/LICENSE
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/Meta
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/Meta/Rd.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/Meta/features.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/Meta/hsearch.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/Meta/links.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/Meta/nsInfo.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/Meta/package.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/Meta/vignette.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/NAMESPACE
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/NEWS.md
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/R
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/R/remotes
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/R/remotes.rdb
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/R/remotes.rdx
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/README.md
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/doc
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/doc/dependencies.Rmd
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/doc/dependencies.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/doc/index.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/AnIndex
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/add_metadata.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/aliases.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/available_packages.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/available_packages_reset.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/available_packages_set.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/bioc_install_repos.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/bioc_version.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/dev_package_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/download.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/download_version.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/git_credentials.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/github_pull.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/github_refs.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/github_release.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/github_remote.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/gitlab_pat.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_bioc.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_bitbucket.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_cran.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_dev.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_git.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_github.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_gitlab.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_local.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_remote.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_svn.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_url.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/install_version.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/local_package_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/package_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/parse-git-repo.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/parse_github_repo_spec.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/parse_github_url.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/parse_repo_spec.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/paths.rds
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/remote_download.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/remote_metadata.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/remote_package_name.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/remote_sha.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/remotes.rdb
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/remotes.rdx
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/standardise_dep.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/system_requirements.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/update.package_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/help/update_packages.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/00Index.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/R.css
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/available_packages.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/bioc_install_repos.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/download.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/download_version.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/git_credentials.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/github_refs.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/github_remote.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/gitlab_pat.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_bioc.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_bitbucket.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_cran.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_dev.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_git.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_github.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_gitlab.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_local.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_remote.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_svn.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_url.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/install_version.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/package_deps.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/parse-git-repo.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/standardise_dep.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/system_requirements.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/html/update_packages.html
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/install-github.R
/usr/share/R/library/remotes/install-github.Rin

References

R-remotes website

Summary

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