How To Install r-cran-vcdextra on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-vcdextra on Debian 9.
What is r-cran-vcdextra
r-cran-vcdextra is:
The vcdExtra package is a GNU R package providing additional data sets, methods and documentation to complement the ‘vcd’ package for Visualizing Categorical Data and the ‘gnm’ package for Generalized Nonlinear Models. In particular, ‘vcdExtra’ extends mosaic, assoc and sieve plots from ‘vcd’ to handle ‘glm()’ and ‘gnm()’ models and adds a 3D version in ‘mosaic3d’. Additionally, methods are provided for comparing and visualizing lists of ‘glm’ and ’loglm’ objects. This package is now a support package for the book, “Discrete Data Analysis with R” by Michael Friendly and David Meyer.
There are three methods to install r-cran-vcdextra on Debian 9. 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-vcdextra 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-vcdextra using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install r-cran-vcdextra
Install r-cran-vcdextra Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install r-cran-vcdextra using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install r-cran-vcdextra
Install r-cran-vcdextra 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-vcdextra using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install r-cran-vcdextra
How To Uninstall r-cran-vcdextra on Debian 9
To uninstall only the r-cran-vcdextra package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove r-cran-vcdextra
Uninstall r-cran-vcdextra And Its Dependencies
To uninstall r-cran-vcdextra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove r-cran-vcdextra
Remove r-cran-vcdextra Configurations and Data
To remove r-cran-vcdextra configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge r-cran-vcdextra
Remove r-cran-vcdextra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove r-cran-vcdextra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge r-cran-vcdextra
Dependencies
r-cran-vcdextra have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install r-cran-vcdextra package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.