How To Install r-cran-distributional 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-distributional on Ubuntu.

What is `r-cran-distributional`

r-cran-distributional is:

Vectorised distribution objects with tools for manipulating, visualising, and using probability distributions. Designed to allow model prediction outputs to return distributions rather than their parameters, allowing users to directly interact with predictive distributions in a data-oriented workflow. In addition to providing generic replacements for p/d/q/r functions, other useful statistics can be computed including means, variances, intervals, and highest density regions.

There are three methods to install r-cran-distributional 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-distributional 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-distributional using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install r-cran-distributional Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-distributional

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-distributional

How To Uninstall r-cran-distributional on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-distributional

Uninstall r-cran-distributional And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove r-cran-distributional Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-distributional have the following dependencies:

References

r-cran-distributional website

Summary

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