How To Install r-cran-boot on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-boot on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is r-cran-boot
r-cran-boot is:
This package provides functions and datasets from the book “Bootstrap Methods and Their Applications” by A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley (1997, CUP). It was witten by Angelo Canty, and ported to R by Brian Ripley.
This package is part of the set of packages that are ‘recommended’ by R Core and shipped with upstream source releases of R itself.
URL: http://statwww.epfl.ch/davison/BMA/library.html
There are three methods to install r-cran-boot 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-boot 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-boot using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-boot
Install r-cran-boot Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-boot using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-boot
Install r-cran-boot 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-boot using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-boot
How To Uninstall r-cran-boot on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-boot package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-boot
Uninstall r-cran-boot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-boot 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-boot
Remove r-cran-boot Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-boot configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-boot
Remove r-cran-boot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-boot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-boot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-boot package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
