How To Install r-cran-patchwork on Debian 12

Learn how to install r-cran-patchwork on Debian 12 with this tutorial. r-cran-patchwork is GNU R the composer of plots

Introduction

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

What is r-cran-patchwork

r-cran-patchwork is:

The ‘ggplot2’ package provides a strong API for sequentially building up a plot, but does not concern itself with composition of multiple plots. ‘patchwork’ is a package that expands the API to allow for arbitrarily complex composition of plots by, among others, providing mathematical operators for combining multiple plots. Other packages that try to address this need (but with a different approach) are ‘gridExtra’ and ‘cowplot’.

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

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

Install r-cran-patchwork Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-patchwork

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-patchwork

How To Uninstall r-cran-patchwork on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-patchwork

Uninstall r-cran-patchwork And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove r-cran-patchwork Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-patchwork have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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