How To Install r-cran-future.batchtools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-future.batchtools on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is r-cran-future.batchtools
r-cran-future.batchtools is:
Implementation of the Future API on top of the ‘batchtools’ package. This allows you to process futures, as defined by the ‘future’ package, in parallel out of the box, not only on your local machine or ad-hoc cluster of machines, but also via high-performance compute (‘HPC’) job schedulers such as ‘LSF’, ‘OpenLava’, ‘Slurm’, ‘SGE’, and ‘TORQUE’ / ‘PBS’, e.g. ‘y <- future.apply::future_lapply(files, FUN = process)’.
There are three methods to install r-cran-future.batchtools on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-future.batchtools 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-future.batchtools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-future.batchtools
Install r-cran-future.batchtools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-future.batchtools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-future.batchtools
Install r-cran-future.batchtools 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-future.batchtools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-future.batchtools
How To Uninstall r-cran-future.batchtools on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-future.batchtools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-future.batchtools
Uninstall r-cran-future.batchtools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-future.batchtools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-future.batchtools
Remove r-cran-future.batchtools Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-future.batchtools configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-future.batchtools
Remove r-cran-future.batchtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-future.batchtools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-future.batchtools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-future.batchtools package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.