How To Install r-cran-rinside on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-rinside on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is r-cran-rinside
r-cran-rinside is:
The ‘RInside’ packages makes it easier to have “R inside” your C++ application by providing a C++ wrapper class providing the R interpreter.
As R itself is embedded into your application, a shared library build of R is required. This works on Linux, OS X and even on Windows provided you use the same tools used to build R itself.
Numerous examples are provided in the eight subdirectories of the examples/ directory of the installed package: standard, mpi (for parallel computing) qt (showing how to embed ‘RInside’ inside a Qt GUI application), wt (showing how to build a “web-application” using the Wt toolkit), armadillo (for ‘RInside’ use with ‘RcppArmadillo’) and eigen (for ‘RInside’ use with ‘RcppEigen’). The example use GNUmakefile(s) with GNU extensions, so a GNU make is required (and will use the GNUmakefile automatically).
Doxygen-generated documentation of the C++ classes is available at the ‘RInside’ website as well.
There are three methods to install r-cran-rinside 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-rinside 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-rinside using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-rinside
Install r-cran-rinside Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-rinside using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-rinside
Install r-cran-rinside 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-rinside using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-rinside
How To Uninstall r-cran-rinside on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the r-cran-rinside package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-rinside
Uninstall r-cran-rinside And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-rinside 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-rinside
Remove r-cran-rinside Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-rinside configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-rinside
Remove r-cran-rinside configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-rinside configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-rinside
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-rinside package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
