How To Install r-cran-pwt on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-pwt
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is r-cran-pwt
r-cran-pwt is:
This package contains the Penn World Tables (PWT), which provide purchasing power parity (PPP) and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries for some or all the years 1950-2010. The data are developed and maintained by scholars at the Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices (CIC) from the University of Pennsylvania.
The package contains all the releases of the PWT from version 5.6 to 7.1, which were created by the University of Pennsylvania. Note that more recent versions of the PWT have been created by the University of California, Davis and the University of Groningen, and are available in the r-cran-pwt8 and r-cran-pwt9 packages.
There are three methods to install r-cran-pwt
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-pwt 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-pwt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-pwt
Install r-cran-pwt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-pwt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-pwt
Install r-cran-pwt 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-pwt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-pwt
How To Uninstall r-cran-pwt on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-pwt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-pwt
Uninstall r-cran-pwt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-pwt
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-pwt
Remove r-cran-pwt Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-pwt
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-pwt
Remove r-cran-pwt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-pwt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-pwt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-pwt
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.