How To Install r-cran-nnet on Ubuntu 20.04
R is an open-source programming language for statistical computing and graphics supported by the R Core Team and the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. It is the most commonly used programming language in data mining.
In this article, we’re going to install the r-cran-nnet package. nnet is an R language package for feed-forward neural networks with a single hidden layer, for multinomial log-linear models and making predictions on input data which will be classified later. For more information visit https://cran.r-project.org/package=nnet
Installation
Step 1: Update the apt packages cache to get the latest package available in the ubuntu repository
sudo apt update
Step 2: Install R language (If you haven’t installed it)
sudo apt install -y r-base-core
Step 3: Verify the R version
Step 4: Start the R console by typing R in your terminal to install the required package
As you can see we get the R console, which means that we’ve successfully installed the R language, here we can do whatever we want in our case install the nnet package.
Step 5: Install the r-cran-nnet package by issuing the following command in the R console.
install.packages("nnet")
Step 6: Verify the package installation
find.package("nnet")
As you can see above we get the location of the package where it is installed which means that we’ve successfully installed the r-cran-nnet package.