[R] How to start R

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 7 17:29:20 CEST 2010


Hi steve,

After starting R which command shall I use to exit it rather than close the 
console.  exit/quit did not work.  Thanks

B.R.
Stephen



----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
Cc: Tim Gruene <tg at shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de>; R-help at r-project.org
Sent: Sat, August 7, 2010 9:18:42 PM
Subject: Re: [R] How to start R

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I got it.  Thanks for reminding me.  It should be R (capital letter) not r.

Indeed, you were typing in a "little r", as opposed to a capital R.
Now, note the package list you installed:

r-base
littler
r-cran-plotrix
r-cran-qtl
r-cran-rggobi

One of which is "littler" -- aka "little R", which is a scripting
front end for R :-)

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html

Enjoy,
-steve
-- 
Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
 | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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