How To Install R-littler on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-littler
on CentOS 7.
What is R-littler
A scripting and command-line front-end is provided by ‘r’ (aka ’littler’) as a lightweight binary wrapper around the GNU R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. While R can be used in batch mode, the r binary adds full support for both ‘shebang’-style scripting (i.e. using a hash-mark-exclamation-path expression as the first line in scripts) as well as command-line use in standard Unix pipelines. In other words, r provides the R language without the environment.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install R-littler
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install R-littler.
Install R-littler on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install R-littler
using yum
by running the following command:
Install R-littler 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-littler
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall R-littler on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the R-littler
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install R-littler
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.