How To Install r-cran-phytools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-phytools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is r-cran-phytools
r-cran-phytools is:
A wide range of functions for phylogenetic analysis. Functionality is concentrated in phylogenetic comparative biology, but also includes a diverse array of methods for visualizing, manipulating, reading or writing, and even inferring phylogenetic trees and data. Included among the functions in phylogenetic comparative biology are various for ancestral state reconstruction, model-fitting, simulation of phylogenies and data, and multivariate analysis. There are a broad range of plotting methods for phylogenies and comparative data which include, but are not restricted to, methods for mapping trait evolution on trees, for projecting trees into phenotypic space or a geographic map, and for visualizing correlated speciation between trees. Finally, there are a number of functions for reading, writing, analyzing, inferring, simulating, and manipulating phylogenetic trees and comparative data not covered by other packages. For instance, there are functions for randomly or non-randomly attaching species or clades to a phylogeny, for estimating supertrees or consensus phylogenies from a set, for simulating trees and phylogenetic data under a range of models, and for a wide variety of other manipulations and analyses that phylogenetic biologists might find useful in their research.
There are three methods to install r-cran-phytools 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-phytools 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-phytools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-phytools
Install r-cran-phytools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-phytools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-phytools
Install r-cran-phytools 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-phytools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-phytools
How To Uninstall r-cran-phytools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-phytools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-phytools
Uninstall r-cran-phytools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-phytools 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-phytools
Remove r-cran-phytools Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-phytools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-phytools
Remove r-cran-phytools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-phytools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-phytools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-phytools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
