How To Install R-core on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-core
on CentOS 7.
What is R-core
A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, …). R is designed as a true computer language with control-flow constructions for iteration and alternation, and it allows users to add additional functionality by defining new functions. For computationally intensive tasks, C, C++ and Fortran code can be linked and called at run time.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install R-core
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install R-core.
Install R-core on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install R-core
using yum
by running the following command:
Install R-core on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install R-core
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall R-core on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the R-core
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-core
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.