[R] uninstalling and installing on linux

[Juliet Hannah]

>>
>> This has not worked for me, meaning I can still use R, so instead I
>> removed the directory
>>
>> rm -fR R-2.10.1
>>
>> Is one method preferable to another. And what am I doing incorrectly
>> with "make uninstall"?
>
> Don't know, probably not many are using it and it may be fairly untested.
>

If not many are using it, is "make uninstall" not the conventional way
to uninstall? What is
the most commonly used way? I was trying to follow  the R installation
manual, but
maybe I haven't read enough. Thanks.