[R] Where is R installed on my Linux?

[Loris Bennett]

Mike Wojnowicz <mwojnowicz at cylance.com> writes:

> I have successfully installed R on my AWS EC2 r3.8 box running Linux with
>>sudo yum install -y R
>
> However, I cannot find R anywhere (which I want for the sake of
> tar'ing it up and decompressing to make future installations easier.)
> For example,
>
>> rpm -ql R
>
> Says there is nothing to show.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> -Mike

If you run

  yum info R

you'll find this description:

  This is a metapackage that provides both core R userspace and
  all R development components.

The metapackage consists of 'r-core' plus various other packages.  These
are the packages that 'rpm' sees.

Cheers,

Loris

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Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de