How To Install r-cran-polycub on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-polycub on Ubuntu 18.04. r-cran-polycub is GNU R Cubature over Polygonal Domains

Introduction

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

What is r-cran-polycub

r-cran-polycub is:

The following methods for cubature (numerical integration) over polygonal domains are currently implemented: the two-dimensional midpoint rule as a simple wrapper around as.im.function() from package ‘spatstat’ (Baddeley and Turner, 2005), the product Gauss cubature by Sommariva and Vianello (2007), an adaptive cubature for isotropic functions via line integrate() along the boundary (Meyer and Held, 2014), and quasi-exact methods specific to the integration of the bivariate Gaussian density over polygonal and circular domains (based on formulae from the Abramowitz and Stegun (1972) handbook). For cubature over simple hypercubes, the packages ‘cubature’ and ‘R2Cuba’ are more appropriate.

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

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

Install r-cran-polycub Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-polycub

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-polycub

How To Uninstall r-cran-polycub on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-polycub

Uninstall r-cran-polycub And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-cran-polycub 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-polycub

Remove r-cran-polycub Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

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Summary

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