[R-sig-Debian] Question about graphical UI running R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron...

[Brian Lunergan]

Tobias Verbeke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you want a full-fledged R IDE for Linux,
> have a look at the StatET plugin for Eclipse:
> 
> http://www.walware.de/goto/statet/
> 
> Eclipse support is not tremendous for Ubuntu
> (no recent builds to be apt-get installed),
> so you will need to download and unpack
> the stable release of Eclipse Classic from
> 
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
> 
> and then install from within
> Eclipse
> 
> Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install...
> Search for new features to install
> 
> You need to use
> 
>   http://www.walware.de/eclipseupdates
> 
> as a (new) Eclipse update site and walk through
> the wizard.
> 
> To get started (launching R, configuring for Sweave etc.),
> you can access the cheat sheets via
> 
>   Help -> Cheat Sheets... -> StatET: R in Eclipse.
> 
> For questions, there is a dedicated mailing
> list at
> 
> http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/mailman/listinfo/statet-user
> 
> I hope this is useful.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Tobias

This seems interesting. I've downloaded the archive. Two questions...

1) I assume sudo file-roller will be the command to start things off. Where
should I be pointing it at to drop the files in the right place?

2) Other than a current R install, of course, are there any other packages
I should make sure are present on my machine so that things go as they should?

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Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada