How To Install r-cran-lexrankr on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-lexrankr on Ubuntu 18.04. r-cran-lexrankr is extractive summarization of text with the LexRank algorithm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-lexrankr on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is r-cran-lexrankr

r-cran-lexrankr is:

An R implementation of the LexRank algorithm implementing stochastic graph-based method for computing relative importance of textual units for Natural Language Processing. The technique on the problem of Text Summarization (TS) is tested. Extractive TS relies on the concept of sentence salience to identify the most important sentences in a document or set of documents. Salience is typically defined in terms of the presence of particular important words or in terms of similarity to a centroid pseudo-sentence.

There are three methods to install r-cran-lexrankr 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-lexrankr 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-lexrankr using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-lexrankr

Install r-cran-lexrankr Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-lexrankr using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install r-cran-lexrankr

Install r-cran-lexrankr 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-lexrankr using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-lexrankr

How To Uninstall r-cran-lexrankr on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the r-cran-lexrankr package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-lexrankr

Uninstall r-cran-lexrankr And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-cran-lexrankr 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-lexrankr

Remove r-cran-lexrankr Configurations and Data

To remove r-cran-lexrankr configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-lexrankr

Remove r-cran-lexrankr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove r-cran-lexrankr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-lexrankr

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-lexrankr package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.