[R] How to start R

[Tim Gruene]

What exactly do you mean with 'just hanging there'? Do you expect anything else?
When I start R on Debian squeeze (with the command 'R'), I see
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> 
and I can start working from there.

Tim

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:30:29AM -0700, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Just finished installing R on Ubuntu 10.04, running on a VM, download following 
> packages on repo;
> 
> r-base
> littler
> r-cran-plotrix
> r-cran-qtl
> r-cran-rggobi
> 
> But I could not get R started. r is on /usr/bin/r
> 
> On console evoking it just hanging there.  Any additional packages I need to 
> install?  Thanks
> 
> B.R.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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