How To Install r-cran-gregmisc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-gregmisc on Kali Linux. r-cran-gregmisc is GNU R package with miscellaneous functions by Greg Warnes et al

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-gregmisc on Kali Linux.

What is r-cran-gregmisc

r-cran-gregmisc is:

This package of miscellaneous functions for GNU R that written by Gregory Warnes with code contributions by Ben Bolker, Bendix Carstensen, Don MacQueen, William Venables, Marc Schwartz, Ben Bolker, Ian Wilson, Kjetil Halvorsen, Arni Magnusson, Lodewijk Bonebakker, and others.

Most of the function in the gregmisc library fall into six general areas: permutations and combinations, tools for linear models, plots, data manipulation, and fixed or extended versions of existing functions.

Note that as of version 2.0.8, gregmisc’s code is now provided by the new packages gdata, gmodels, gplots and gtools which contain all the code formerly provided by gregmisc. Unless any of your R code still loads the gregmisc package directly, and you thus need it to load the component packages, you can remove this package.

There are three methods to install r-cran-gregmisc on Kali Linux. 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-gregmisc 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-gregmisc using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install r-cran-gregmisc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-gregmisc

Install r-cran-gregmisc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-gregmisc

How To Uninstall r-cran-gregmisc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-gregmisc

Uninstall r-cran-gregmisc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-cran-gregmisc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

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

Remove r-cran-gregmisc Configurations and Data

To remove r-cran-gregmisc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-gregmisc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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