How To Install r-cran-forcats on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-forcats on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is r-cran-forcats
r-cran-forcats is:
The package offers helpers for reordering factor levels (including moving specified levels to front, ordering by first appearance, reversing, and randomly shuffling), and tools for modifying factor levels (including collapsing rare levels into other, ‘anonymising’, and manually ‘recoding’).
There are three methods to install r-cran-forcats 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-forcats 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-forcats using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-forcats
Install r-cran-forcats Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-forcats using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-forcats
Install r-cran-forcats 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-forcats using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-forcats
How To Uninstall r-cran-forcats on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-forcats package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-forcats
Uninstall r-cran-forcats And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-forcats 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-forcats
Remove r-cran-forcats Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-forcats configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-forcats
Remove r-cran-forcats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-forcats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-forcats
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-forcats package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
