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What is the difference between rm and remove?
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rm() function in R Language is used to delete objects from the memory. It can be used with ls() function to delete all objects.
rm -r will recursively delete a directory and all its contents (normally rm will not delete directories, while rmdir will only delete empty directories).
The ls() code lists all of the objects in your workspace. The rm() code removes objects in your workspace. You can begin your code with the rm() function to clear all of the objects from your workspace to start with a clean environment. This way the workspace is empty and everything you create is clearly visible.
First, as others have already said, yes | rm -r is very similar but not identical to rm -rf . The difference is that the -f option tells rm to continue past various errors. This means that yes | rm -r will exit on the first error unlike rm -rf which continue on and keep deleting everything it can.
There is no difference; remove is an alias and is defined as:
remove <- rm
See the source code here
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