title: completely uninstall r linux
body: <p>I am trying to update my version of R on linux mint, however broken dependencies are stopping me doing this. after trying everything such as adding repos from Cran, sudo apt-get update, I still cannot install the latest version of R.</p>
  
  <p>MY question is how to i completely remove R from my machine, so that I can restart. I have tried :</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo apt-get remove r-base
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>however when I run R it still works:</p>
  
  <pre><code>laptop$ R
  
  R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
  Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
  ISBN 3-900051-07-0
  Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and doesn;t seem to be removed at all.</p>
  
  <p>I want a clean, fresh install, but I don't think I am removing R properly</p>