How To Install r-bioc-biobase on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-biobase on Debian 9. r-bioc-biobase is base functions for Bioconductor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-biobase on Debian 9.

What is r-bioc-biobase

r-bioc-biobase is:

Biobase is part of the Bioconductor project, and is used by many other packages. Biobase contains standardized data structures to represent genomic data, and functions that are needed by many other packages or which replace R functions.

Bioconductor is a project to develop innovative software tools for use in computational biology. It is based on the R language. You should already be quite familiar with R before using Bioconductor. Bioconductor packages provide flexible interactive tools for carrying out a number of different computational tasks.

There are three methods to install r-bioc-biobase on Debian 9. 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-bioc-biobase 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-bioc-biobase using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install r-bioc-biobase

Install r-bioc-biobase Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-bioc-biobase

Install r-bioc-biobase 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-bioc-biobase using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-bioc-biobase

How To Uninstall r-bioc-biobase on Debian 9

To uninstall only the r-bioc-biobase package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove r-bioc-biobase

Uninstall r-bioc-biobase And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-bioc-biobase and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-bioc-biobase

Remove r-bioc-biobase Configurations and Data

To remove r-bioc-biobase configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge r-bioc-biobase

Remove r-bioc-biobase configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-bioc-biobase

Dependencies

r-bioc-biobase have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-bioc-biobase package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.