How To Install r-other-curvefdp on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-other-curvefdp on Ubuntu 18.04. r-other-curvefdp is estimation of confidence levels for peptide identifications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-other-curvefdp on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is r-other-curvefdp

r-other-curvefdp is:

This is a GNU R package for the Analytical Chemistry publication entitled ‘Estimating the Confidence of Peptide Identifications without Decoy Databases’. The function curveFDR(scores) fits a gaussian mixture model to a score distribution of peptide identifications and thereby allows the estimation of confidence levels based on the false discvory proportion.

There are three methods to install r-other-curvefdp 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-other-curvefdp 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-other-curvefdp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install r-other-curvefdp

Install r-other-curvefdp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install r-other-curvefdp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install r-other-curvefdp

Install r-other-curvefdp 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-other-curvefdp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-other-curvefdp

How To Uninstall r-other-curvefdp on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the r-other-curvefdp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove r-other-curvefdp

Uninstall r-other-curvefdp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-other-curvefdp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-other-curvefdp

Remove r-other-curvefdp Configurations and Data

To remove r-other-curvefdp configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge r-other-curvefdp

Remove r-other-curvefdp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove r-other-curvefdp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-other-curvefdp

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-other-curvefdp package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.