How To Install r-cran-catools on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-catools on Debian 9. r-cran-catools is GNU R package providing various utility functions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-catools on Debian 9.

What is r-cran-catools

r-cran-catools is:

The packages features several basic utility functions including: moving (rolling, running) window statistic functions, read/write for GIF and ENVI binary files, fast calculation of AUC, LogitBoost classifier, base64 encoder/decoder, round-off error free sum and cumsum, etc.

This package of R programming tools for plotting data was written by Jarek Tuszynski.

There are three methods to install r-cran-catools 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-cran-catools 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-catools using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install r-cran-catools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-catools

Install r-cran-catools 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-catools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-catools

How To Uninstall r-cran-catools on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-catools

Uninstall r-cran-catools And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove r-cran-catools Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-catools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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