How To Install r-cran-earth on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-earth
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is r-cran-earth
r-cran-earth is:
This GNU R package builds regression models using the techniques in Friedman’s papers “Fast MARS” and “Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines” doi:10.1214/aos/1176347963. (The term “MARS” is trademarked and thus not used in the name of the package.)
There are three methods to install r-cran-earth
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-earth 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-earth
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-earth
Install r-cran-earth Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-earth
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-earth
Install r-cran-earth 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-earth
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-earth
How To Uninstall r-cran-earth on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-earth
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-earth
Uninstall r-cran-earth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-earth
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-earth
Remove r-cran-earth Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-earth
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-earth
Remove r-cran-earth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-earth
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-earth
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-earth
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.