How To Install r-cran-fassets on Ubuntu

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

2 minutes • 375 words

Introduction

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

What is `r-cran-fassets`

r-cran-fassets is:

This package provides functions for modelling and selection of financial assets is part of Rmetrics, a collection of packages for financial engineering and computational finance written and compiled by Diethelm Wuertz and others.

fAssets provides asset selection and modelling functions.

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

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

Install r-cran-fassets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-fassets

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-fassets

How To Uninstall r-cran-fassets on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-fassets

Uninstall r-cran-fassets And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove r-cran-fassets Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-fassets have the following dependencies:

References

r-cran-fassets website

Summary

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