[R] R and UBUNTU startup

[John C Frain]

If you want to keep your R installation up to date use the installation
instructions available for ubuntu at
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/.  Follow the instructions
there and you will be able to use standard Ubuntu update procedures
afterwards. (Delete your old version first).  Download rstudio (32 or
64-bit version as required) from
https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/.. Open in
software-centre and install.  You can keep rstudio up to date by
downloading the new version and repeating the process.

Verzani, Getting started with Rstudio, O'Reilly would be a good starting
point to learn RStudio.  PACKT Publishing have several other books on
Rstudio.  R an Rstudio are almost the same on windows and Linux.  I had an
earlier edition of ubuntu unleashed 2017.  You might have a look at the
material at https://itsfoss.com/5-free-ubuntu-books-for-beginners/.  You do
need to know how to manage files in linux.  Installing and updating
 software using apt-get is really simple.




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On 4 July 2017 at 20:39, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/07/2017 12:46 PM, Michael Friendly wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Running help.start() from within R should get you access to the HTML
> versions.  The pdf versions aren't always built; it depends on how you do
> the build.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>
>>
>>> And question 3 is simple. Are there some kind of "Linux R for Windows
>>> dummies" available?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Petr
>>>
>>>
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