How To Install r-cran-sourcetools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-sourcetools
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is r-cran-sourcetools
r-cran-sourcetools is:
Tools for the reading and tokenization of R code. The ‘sourcetools’ package provides both an R and C++ interface for the tokenization of R code, and helpers for interacting with the tokenized representation of R code.
There are three methods to install r-cran-sourcetools
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-sourcetools 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-sourcetools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-sourcetools
Install r-cran-sourcetools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-sourcetools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-sourcetools
Install r-cran-sourcetools 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-sourcetools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-sourcetools
How To Uninstall r-cran-sourcetools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-sourcetools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-sourcetools
Uninstall r-cran-sourcetools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-sourcetools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-sourcetools
Remove r-cran-sourcetools Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-sourcetools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-sourcetools
Remove r-cran-sourcetools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-sourcetools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-sourcetools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-sourcetools
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.