How To Install r-cran-cluster on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-cluster on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is r-cran-cluster
r-cran-cluster is:
This package provides functions and datasets for cluster analysis originally written by Peter Rousseeuw, Anja Struyf and Mia Hubert.
This package is part of the set of packages that are ‘recommended’ by R Core and shipped with upstream source releases of R itself.
There are three methods to install r-cran-cluster 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-cluster 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-cluster using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-cluster
Install r-cran-cluster Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-cluster using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-cluster
Install r-cran-cluster 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-cluster using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-cluster
How To Uninstall r-cran-cluster on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-cluster package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-cluster
Uninstall r-cran-cluster And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-cluster 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-cluster
Remove r-cran-cluster Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-cluster configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-cluster
Remove r-cran-cluster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-cluster configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-cluster
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-cluster package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
