[R-sig-Debian] Running R in Ubuntu...really basic..sorry

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Hi,

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Judson <judson0423 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I've actually run R quite a bit in Windows.  I've had a release
> 8.04 of Ubuntu running a laptop for 3 days now.  After struggling for
> much of that time to install R, I finally figured out that Dell
> shipped with the sources.list obsolete or just plain wrong.  So I
> finally got it installed last night (for some reason v2.6.2, not
> v2.9.x).  This morning I was able to download and install the
> LearnBayes package.  My biggest problem right now is that I don't know
> how to run R except as a local-directory command in the Terminal.
> Certain R commands cause the terminal to go into some changed state
> and not take any more commands.  Right now for example I ahve a last
> line that is darkened in over (END) and it's sitting there. Any
> advice?

I am not quite sure of the exact question here, but looking at the two
replies, I think it has something to do with a "gui". If not then this
short reply from me is moot. If so, then take look here:
http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/

I am personally involved in Rkward - it is a KDE based GUI which does
most of the basic stuff nicely. We are about to make a new release, so
if you are interested join the rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
mailing list. For a quick "screenshot" see here:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Screenshots

Hope this plug is not too objectionable to the list!
-- 
Prasenjit