diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 74765148ab..9c83a578eb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ tag: ## Bump version and tag
 	git add .
 	git commit -m "chore: Release v$(VERSION)"
 	git tag v$(VERSION)
-	# git push origin && git push origin --tags
+	git push origin && git push origin --tags
 
 help: ## List all make tasks
 	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
diff --git a/r/Makefile b/r/Makefile
index 77f1488c71..968b51a47b 100644
--- a/r/Makefile
+++ b/r/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VERSION=$(shell grep -i ^version DESCRIPTION | cut -d : -d \  -f 2)
+LOCAL_VERSION=$(shell grep -i ^version DESCRIPTION | cut -d : -d \  -f 2)
 PKG_NAME=$(shell grep -i ^package DESCRIPTION | cut -d : -d \  -f 2)
 
 R_FILES := $(wildcard R/*.R)
@@ -18,20 +18,20 @@ build: preinstall doc
 	mkdir build
 	mv man build
 	mv NAMESPACE build
-	mv $(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz build/$(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION)_R.tar.gz
+	mv $(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz build/$(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION)_R.tar.gz
 
 build-nightly: preinstall
 	R CMD build .
 	rm -rf build
 	mkdir build
-	mv $(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz build/$(PKG_NAME)_nightly_R.tar.gz
+	mv $(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz build/$(PKG_NAME)_nightly_R.tar.gz
 
-package0: doc $(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz
-$(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz: $(PKG_FILES)
+package0: doc $(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz
+$(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz: $(PKG_FILES)
 	R CMD build .
 
-check: $(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz 
-	R CMD check $(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz
+check: $(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz 
+	R CMD check $(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz
 
 doc:
 	Rscript -e '.libPaths(c("~/R_LIBS",.libPaths()));library(devtools);library(roxygen2);document()'
@@ -41,16 +41,16 @@ preinstall:
 	R -e 'install.packages(c("roxygen2","devtools","httr","stringr"), repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org")'
 
 install: 
-	R CMD INSTALL $(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz
+	R CMD INSTALL $(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz
 
-uninstall: $(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz
+uninstall: $(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz
 	R CMD REMOVE $(PKG_NAME)
 
 .PHONY: tag
 tag: # Bump version
 	$(SED) -i -r -e "s/Version.+/Version: $(VERSION)/" DESCRIPTION
 
-uninstall: $(PKG_NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz
+uninstall: $(PKG_NAME)_$(LOCAL_VERSION).tar.gz
 	R CMD REMOVE $(PKG_NAME)
 
 clean: