[Rd] R --gui doesn't work, but R --help says it does

[Robert King]

This was reported on r-devel in April for 2.1.0, but isn't fixed in 2.1.1
see
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/devel/05/04/0586.html

# R --help
[ output omitted, until] 

  -g, --gui=TYPE        Use TYPE as GUI; possible values are 'X11'
                        (default), 'none', 'Tk' and 'gnome'

solzhenitsyn:~# R --gui=none
ERROR: unknown GUI none
solzhenitsyn:~# R --gui=none
ERROR: unknown GUI none
solzhenitsyn:~# R --gui='none'
ERROR: unknown GUI none
solzhenitsyn:~# R --gui=X11
ERROR: unknown GUI X11
solzhenitsyn:~# R --gui=Tk
ERROR: unknown GUI Tk
solzhenitsyn:~# R --gui='Tk'
ERROR: unknown GUI Tk
solzhenitsyn:~# R --gui='X11'
ERROR: unknown GUI X11
solzhenitsyn:~# R --gui="none"
ERROR: unknown GUI none



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