How To Install R-java on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-java
on CentOS 7.
What is R-java
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. This package also has an additional dependency on java, as provided by Fedora’s openJDK.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install R-java
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install R-java.
Install R-java on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install R-java
using yum
by running the following command:
Install R-java 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-java
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall R-java on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the R-java
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-java
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.