How To Install r-cran-fimport on Debian 12

Learn how to install r-cran-fimport on Debian 12 with this tutorial. r-cran-fimport is GNU R package for financial engineering – fImport

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-fimport on Debian 12.

What is r-cran-fimport

r-cran-fimport is:

This package provides functions to import financial and economic data series import and is part of Rmetrics, a collection of packages for financial engineering and computational finance written and compiled by Diethelm Wuertz and others.

fImport provides import function to access (free) data from Economagic, the US Federal Reserve, Forecasts.Org, Yahoo and other web sources.

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

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

Install r-cran-fimport Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-fimport

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-fimport

How To Uninstall r-cran-fimport on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-fimport

Uninstall r-cran-fimport And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-cran-fimport and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

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

Remove r-cran-fimport Configurations and Data

To remove r-cran-fimport configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-fimport have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-fimport package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.