How To Install r-cran-gregmisc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-gregmisc on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-gregmisc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
