completely uninstall r linux
The R binary (well, front-end script) is part of the r-base-core
package which contains the core R system.
The package r-base
is a so-called virtual package which exists to just pulls other packages in. Removing it does not remove any parts of the R system --- for which you need to remove r-base-core
.
Unistall R completely from Linux Mint 19 and do a fresh install
I gave up on Linux Mint and installed Ubuntu 20.04. R 4.0.2 works out of the box and the problem is solved.
Complete remove and reinstall R, including all packages
In R, you can use the .libPaths()
instruction (or R -e '.libPaths()'
in terminal) to know where your packages are installed. Delete those folders and reinstall.
How to uninstall R and RStudio with all packages, settings and everything else?
I have further issues with the previous answer. For that reason, I have extended the answer with further steps (which I experienced currently) as below:
- Run
.libPaths()
and save the listed directories shown on the RStudio console. In my case, it looks like:
.libPaths()
"C:/Users/%USERNAME%/Documents/R/win-library/3.6"
"C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.3/library"
Uninstall R for Windows, RStudio and RTools from Windows "Programs and Features" menu. You might navigate there through: Add or remove programs > App & features > On search box
Delete everything in folders that was shown after running
.libPaths()
instruction in R to know where R packages are installed.
Therefore, I have manually deleted following files and folders (they remain there after full uninstallation of R, RStudio and RTools) as well:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\R\
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\.Rhistory
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Temp > only specific ones mentioned below.
Specific ones can be various files and folders which can be deleted under this directory related with R and RStudio sessions. In my case, Rtmpcx1qAZ
, Rtmpk7UXWj
, Rscript3d2438240e1
, ... are only example files or folder names to give you rough idea.
- Delete everything inside those listed folders or completely delete those listed folders as well:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\R
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\rstudio
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\r-miniconda
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\r-reticulate
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\??? (!!!might be some others in your case!!!)
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\R
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\RStudio
Then you can move on the re-installation side for R as below (after suggested reboot of Windows). In order (please):
Download R for Windows, (download RTools if you need) and RStudio Desktop.
- Install R (R for Windows)
- Install RTools (if you need)
- Install RStudio (RStudio Desktop)
R redhat uninstall
So it turns out that the problem is that I needed to uninstall several other R packages to actually rid the system of all the environmental variables that were screwing up the reinstall. The following commands totally uninstalled R:
yum uninstall R
yum uninstall R-core
yum uninstall R-devel
yum uninstall R-core-devel
And that did it for me. From there I was able to successfully reinstall R.
How to uninstall R completely from OS X
Use which R
. It will give you the location where R is running so that you can remove it from there.
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