How To Install r-cran-uwot on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-uwot
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is r-cran-uwot
r-cran-uwot is:
An implementation of the Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection dimensionality reduction by McInnes et al. (2018) arXiv:1802.03426. It also provides means to transform new data and to carry out supervised dimensionality reduction. An implementation of the related LargeVis method of Tang et al. (2016) arXiv:1602.00370 is also provided.
This is a complete re-implementation in R (and C++, via the ‘Rcpp’ package): no Python installation is required. See the uwot website (https://github.com/jlmelville/uwot) for more documentation and examples.
There are three methods to install r-cran-uwot
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-uwot 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-uwot
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-uwot
Install r-cran-uwot Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-uwot
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-uwot
Install r-cran-uwot 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-uwot
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-uwot
How To Uninstall r-cran-uwot on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-uwot
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-uwot
Uninstall r-cran-uwot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-uwot
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-uwot
Remove r-cran-uwot Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-uwot
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-uwot
Remove r-cran-uwot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-uwot
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-uwot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-uwot
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.