The character ‘r’ is carriage return. It returns the cursor to the start of the line. It is often used in Internet protocols conjunction with newline ( ‘n’ ) to mark the end of a line (most standards specifies it as “rn” , but some allows the wrong way around).

Does R work on Linux?

Introduction. GNU R can be run on the Linux operating system in a number of ways. In this article we will describe running R from the command line, in an application window, in a batch mode and from a bash script. You will see that these various options for running R in Linux will suit a specific task.

What does R mean in bash?

bash. I learned that -r means recursive, which means the command can be performed in all subdirectories.