How To Install r-cran-rinside on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-rinside on Debian 11. r-cran-rinside is GNU R package to embed R in C++ application

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-rinside on Debian 11.

What is r-cran-rinside

r-cran-rinside is:

The ‘RInside’ packages makes it easier to have “R inside” your C++ application by providing a C++ wrapper class providing the R interpreter.

As R itself is embedded into your application, a shared library build of R is required. This works on Linux, OS X and even on Windows provided you use the same tools used to build R itself.

Numerous examples are provided in the eight subdirectories of the examples/ directory of the installed package: standard, mpi (for parallel computing) qt (showing how to embed ‘RInside’ inside a Qt GUI application), wt (showing how to build a “web-application” using the Wt toolkit), armadillo (for ‘RInside’ use with ‘RcppArmadillo’) and eigen (for ‘RInside’ use with ‘RcppEigen’). The example use GNUmakefile(s) with GNU extensions, so a GNU make is required (and will use the GNUmakefile automatically).

Doxygen-generated documentation of the C++ classes is available at the ‘RInside’ website as well.

There are three methods to install r-cran-rinside on Debian 11. 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-rinside 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-rinside using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install r-cran-rinside Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install r-cran-rinside

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

sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-rinside

How To Uninstall r-cran-rinside on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove r-cran-rinside

Uninstall r-cran-rinside And Its Dependencies

To uninstall r-cran-rinside and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

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

Remove r-cran-rinside Configurations and Data

To remove r-cran-rinside configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

r-cran-rinside have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-rinside package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.