How To Install r-cran-stringdist on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-stringdist
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is r-cran-stringdist
r-cran-stringdist is:
Implements an approximate string matching version of R’s native ‘match’ function. Can calculate various string distances based on edits (Damerau- Levenshtein, Hamming, Levenshtein, optimal sting alignment), qgrams (q- gram, cosine, jaccard distance) or heuristic metrics (Jaro, Jaro- Winkler). An implementation of soundex is provided as well. Distances can be computed between character vectors while taking proper care of encoding or between integer vectors representing generic sequences.
There are three methods to install r-cran-stringdist
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-stringdist 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-stringdist
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-stringdist
Install r-cran-stringdist Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-stringdist
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-stringdist
Install r-cran-stringdist 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-stringdist
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-stringdist
How To Uninstall r-cran-stringdist on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-stringdist
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-stringdist
Uninstall r-cran-stringdist And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-stringdist
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-stringdist
Remove r-cran-stringdist Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-stringdist
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-stringdist
Remove r-cran-stringdist configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-stringdist
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-stringdist
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-stringdist
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.