How To Install r-cran-gbm on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-gbm
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is r-cran-gbm
r-cran-gbm is:
This package implements extensions to Freund and Schapire’s AdaBoost algorithm and Friedman’s gradient boosting machine. Includes regression methods for least squares, absolute loss, t-distribution loss, quantile regression, logistic, multinomial logistic, Poisson, Cox proportional hazards partial likelihood, AdaBoost exponential loss, Huberized hinge loss, and Learning to Rank measures (LambdaMart).
There are three methods to install r-cran-gbm
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-gbm 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-gbm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-gbm
Install r-cran-gbm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-gbm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-gbm
Install r-cran-gbm 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-gbm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-gbm
How To Uninstall r-cran-gbm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-gbm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-gbm
Uninstall r-cran-gbm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-gbm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-gbm
Remove r-cran-gbm Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-gbm
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-gbm
Remove r-cran-gbm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-gbm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-gbm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-gbm
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.