this gist contains necessary steps for installing research work tools like LaTeX, R and other useful library.

latex_installation.sh

### install latex for writing research paper 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install texlive

# for extra (language) packages type following command instead of above
sudo apt-get install texlive-full

# Other useful packages (** optional)
# don't install if you have one or less space in disk
sudo apt-get install ibus
sudo apt-get install rcs rcs-latex

# for latex editor i prefer texStudio
sudo apt-get install texstudio

## For complete uninstallation
sudo apt-get purge texlive*
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get remove tex-common --purge


sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/*
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/texmf
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/texmf
rm -rf ~/.texlive*

### install r for making graphs 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev

# for r editor i prefer rStudio
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-0.99.896-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi -n rstudio-0.99.896-amd64.deb

# for converting pdf to image in eps format
pdf2ps  -eps -level3 input.pdf output.eps

# pdfcrop comes from sudo apt-get install texlive-extra-utils
# If you wish to crop a pdf with (left, top, right and bottom margins) in points then run
pdfcrop --margins '-50 -50 -50 -50' input.pdf output.pdf