How To Install r-cran-forcats on Debian 10

Learn how to install r-cran-forcats on Debian 10 with this tutorial. r-cran-forcats is GNU R package for working with categorical variables (factors)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-forcats on Debian 10.

What is r-cran-forcats

r-cran-forcats is:

The package offers helpers for reordering factor levels (including moving specified levels to front, ordering by first appearance, reversing, and randomly shuffling), and tools for modifying factor levels (including collapsing rare levels into other, ‘anonymising’, and manually ‘recoding’).

There are three methods to install r-cran-forcats on Debian 10. 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-forcats 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-forcats using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install r-cran-forcats Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-forcats

Install r-cran-forcats 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-forcats

How To Uninstall r-cran-forcats on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-forcats

Uninstall r-cran-forcats And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-cran-forcats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

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

Remove r-cran-forcats Configurations and Data

To remove r-cran-forcats configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-forcats have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-forcats package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.