How To Install r-cran-wikitaxa on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-wikitaxa on Kali Linux.

What is r-cran-wikitaxa

r-cran-wikitaxa is:

This package provides ‘Taxonomic’ information from ‘Wikipedia’, ‘Wikicommons’, ‘Wikispecies’, and ‘Wikidata’ for GNU R. There are functions included for getting taxonomic information from each of the sources just listed, as well performing taxonomic search.

There are three methods to install r-cran-wikitaxa on Kali Linux. 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-wikitaxa 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-wikitaxa using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install r-cran-wikitaxa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-wikitaxa

Install r-cran-wikitaxa Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-wikitaxa

How To Uninstall r-cran-wikitaxa on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-wikitaxa

Uninstall r-cran-wikitaxa And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-cran-wikitaxa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-wikitaxa

Remove r-cran-wikitaxa Configurations and Data

To remove r-cran-wikitaxa configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-wikitaxa have the following dependencies:

• r-base-core
• r-api-4.0
• r-cran-wikidatar
• r-cran-data.table
• r-cran-curl
• r-cran-crul
• r-cran-tibble
• r-cran-jsonlite
• r-cran-xml2

References

• r-cran-wikitaxa website

Summary

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