How To Install r-cran-bookdown on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-bookdown on Ubuntu.

What is `r-cran-bookdown`

r-cran-bookdown is:

The bookdown package is a GNU R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. Features include:

Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents.
A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write elements such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and citations.
Multiple choices of output formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word.
Possibility of including dynamic graphics and interactive applications (HTML widgets and Shiny apps).
Support a wide range of languages: R, C/C++, Python, Fortran, Julia, Shell scripts, and SQL, etc.
LaTeX equations, theorems, and proofs work for all output formats.
Can be published to GitHub, bookdown.org, and any web servers.
Integrated with the RStudio IDE.
One-click publishing to https://bookdown.org.

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

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

Install r-cran-bookdown Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-bookdown

Install r-cran-bookdown 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-bookdown using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-bookdown

How To Uninstall r-cran-bookdown on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-bookdown

Uninstall r-cran-bookdown And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove r-cran-bookdown Configurations and Data

To remove r-cran-bookdown configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-bookdown have the following dependencies:

References

r-cran-bookdown website

Summary

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