How To Install r-cran-bookdown on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-bookdown
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is r-cran-bookdown
r-cran-bookdown is:
The bookdown package is a GNU R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. Features include:
- Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents.
- A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write elements such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and citations.
- Multiple choices of output formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word.
- Possibility of including dynamic graphics and interactive applications (HTML widgets and Shiny apps).
- Support a wide range of languages: R, C/C++, Python, Fortran, Julia, Shell scripts, and SQL, etc.
- LaTeX equations, theorems, and proofs work for all output formats.
- Can be published to GitHub, bookdown.org, and any web servers.
- Integrated with the RStudio IDE.
- One-click publishing to https://bookdown.org.
There are three methods to install r-cran-bookdown
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install r-cran-bookdown Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-bookdown
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-bookdown
Install r-cran-bookdown Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-bookdown
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-bookdown
Install r-cran-bookdown Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-bookdown
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-bookdown
How To Uninstall r-cran-bookdown on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-bookdown
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-bookdown
Uninstall r-cran-bookdown And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-bookdown
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-bookdown
Remove r-cran-bookdown Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-bookdown
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-bookdown
Remove r-cran-bookdown configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-bookdown
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-bookdown
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-bookdown
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.