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