[R] console under Mandrake

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Adrian Dusa wrote:
> 
> > I recently compiled R 2.0.0 under Mandrake 9, but it won't run unless in a
> > terminal; is there a way to run it in a console, like in Windows?
> 
> Yes.  Did you read the manual the INSTALL file pointed you to?
> See appendix B.6 in the version I am looking at.
> 
> Or see `An Introduction to R' appendix B.1 and look for --gui.
> 
> [To run the GNOME console I think you need R-patched, not 2.0.0 as 
> distributed.]
> 
> Another approach is to run John Fox's Rcmdr package that provides a 
> console.

Actually, that one is more of a script submission device. (It has
nowhere to just type and press Enter, you need to edit, select, and
press Submit. Which is a good thing for some modes of operation.)

You'll find that the Linux consoles are not nearly as developed as the
Windows one and hardly anyone is using --gui. There are two good reasons:

1) It's really not that horrible to use the command line in a terminal
   window on Linux. 

2) Many people like to use ESS (see the FAQ) and run everything from
   Emacs.

and of course the bad reason: That there isn't much there. However,
had there been a real need, someone would likely have put in the
relevant improvements. 

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