How To Install elpa-ess on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-ess
on Debian 12.
What is elpa-ess
elpa-ess is:
Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) is an add-on package for GNU Emacs. It is designed to support editing of scripts and interaction with various statistical analysis programs such as R, S, S-Plus, SAS, Stata, BUGS/JAGS and Julia.
It provides the following features:
- Editing source code (R, S, S-plus, SAS, BUGS/JAGS, Stata, Julia)
- Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
- Partial evaluation of code
- Loading and error-checking of code
- Source code revision maintenance
- Batch execution (SAS, BUGS/JAGS)
- Use of imenu to provide links to appropriate functions
- Interacting with the process (R, S, S-plus, SAS, Stata, Julia)
- Command-line editing
- Searchable Command history
- Command-line completion of R, S, S-plus object names and file names
- Quick access to object lists and search lists
- Transcript recording
- Interface to the help system
- Transcript manipulation (R, S, S-plus, Stata)
- Recording and saving transcript files
- Manipulating and editing saved transcripts
- Re-evaluating commands from transcript files
- Interaction with Help Pages and other Documentation (R)
- Fast Navigation
- Sending Examples to running ESS process
- Fast Transfer to Further Help Pages
- Help File Editing (R)
- Syntactic indentation and highlighting of source code
- Sending Examples to running ESS process
- Previewing
There are three methods to install elpa-ess
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install elpa-ess Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-ess
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elpa-ess
Install elpa-ess Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elpa-ess
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elpa-ess
Install elpa-ess 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 elpa-ess
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elpa-ess
How To Uninstall elpa-ess on Debian 12
To uninstall only the elpa-ess
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elpa-ess
Uninstall elpa-ess And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elpa-ess
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elpa-ess
Remove elpa-ess Configurations and Data
To remove elpa-ess
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elpa-ess
Remove elpa-ess configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elpa-ess
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elpa-ess
Dependencies
elpa-ess have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-ess
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.