[R] newie help needed

[Petr Pikal]

Hi

I am not familiar with linux version but

On 21 Sep 2006 at 13:56, Julie Harold wrote:

Date sent:      	Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:56:06 +0100
From:           	Julie Harold <j.m.harold at uea.ac.uk>
To:             	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	[R] newie help needed

> hi,
> 
> I am a system admin who has just set up R-2.3.1 in suse 9.1 (opteron)
> for a previous windows user.  Please forgive any obvious stupid
> questions :)
> 
> We are struggling with a number of things.
> 
> 1.  is there a gui interface ?  How do we use it ?  R --gui just gets
> us to the command line.

AFAIK there is not a GUI in a sense of other statistical packages 
directly ot of a box. 

> 
> 2.  how do we do unix commands like cd ?

>From R command line?
see system


> 
> 3.  can we define default directories - eg for data files ?

yes, see setwd, getwd help page

> 
> 4.  we want to use this mainly in batch mode once we get our act
> together - are there any good examples of batch scripts we can use as
> crib sheets.
> 
> 5.  I installed some packages earlier - but now I am obviously doing
> something wrong > install.packages(gnomeGui) Error in
> install.packages(gnomeGui) : object "gnomeGui" not found

install.packages("gnomeGui")

Try to go through some manuals located in doc directory and/or on web 
pages of R project

HTH
Petr


> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Julie
> 
> 
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Petr Pikal
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