[R] R and UBUNTU startup

[Michael Friendly]

On 7/04/17 11:15 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> I have 3 questions. Due to some reason I switched from Vista to Ubuntu on home PC. I was used to start with Rgui.exe. However I am not able to find it under Ubuntu and R starts as terminal (probably Rterm).
> 
> Question 1. Is Rgui.exe available on linux?
No, but you will find things nicer than Rgui by switching to R Studio, 
which you can use on all platforms.
> 
> In Windows doc folder I can find manuals, however I did not find doc folder in Ubuntu. I found somewhere that manuals need to be installed separately by make ....
> 
> Question 2. Is it necessary to install manuals or I made some mistake when installing from Ubuntu software repository.
Just a guess: did you try man R?
All R manuals should be installed by default,but I'm not sure where.

> 
> And question 3 is simple. Are there some kind of "Linux R for Windows dummies" available?
> 
> Best regards
> Petr
>