How To Install r-cran-officer on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-officer on Debian 12.
What is r-cran-officer
r-cran-officer is:
Access and manipulate ‘Microsoft Word’ and ‘Microsoft PowerPoint’ documents from R. The package focuses on tabular and graphical reporting from R; it also provides two functions that let users get document content into data objects. A set of functions lets add and remove images, tables and paragraphs of text in new or existing documents. The package does not require any installation of Microsoft products to be able to write Microsoft files.
There are three methods to install r-cran-officer 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-officer 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-officer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-officer
Install r-cran-officer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-officer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-officer
Install r-cran-officer 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-officer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-officer
How To Uninstall r-cran-officer on Debian 12
To uninstall only the r-cran-officer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-officer
Uninstall r-cran-officer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-officer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-officer
Remove r-cran-officer Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-officer configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-officer
Remove r-cran-officer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-officer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-officer
Dependencies
r-cran-officer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-officer package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
