Information about the package, R-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The R-devel package is designed for, Full R development environment metapackage.
Package Name:
R-devel
Summary:
Full R development environment metapackage
Description:
This is a metapackage to install a complete (with Java) R development environment.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.4.4
Release:
1.el6
Size:
28 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the R-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install R-devel
This command will install R-devel on the server.
yum remove R-devel
This command will un-install R-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove R-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove R-devel
This command will un-install R-devel on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove R-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update R-devel
This command will update R-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove R-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update R-devel
This command will update R-devel to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove R-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info R-devel
This command will show you core information about the R-devel package.
yum deplist R-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for R-devel. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update R-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on R-devel. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.