[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu and R.

Prasenjit Kapat kapatp at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 02:31:02 CET 2011


I'll take the liberty to take it up on the rkward-users list, as I
don't see anything too pertinent to Debian here. So, lets close the
thread here.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 28 January 2011 at 17:39, Matthew Bascom wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | I´ve encountered a couple hurdles after installing Ubuntu for the first time
> | and working with R with RKWard.
> |
> | The Keyboard: I have to hit the quote button twice to get a quote or
> | apostrophe! I tried adjusting keyboard settings but nothing changed.  And
> | the RKWard GUI won´t recognize quotes from my machines even though they show
> | up on the RKWard text editor. On the other hand, RKWard will run quoted
> | material when I copy and paste material with quotes such as in a help.search
> | query.
>
> There is not a lot to go by here.
>
> Thomas frequently builds on Debian and Ubuntu, in fact he is the maintainer.
> Thanks to the backporters Vincent and Michal, a version is always included on
> the CRAN repo for Ubuntu, eg at
>
>     http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>
> where you should read the README.  Just running 'apt-get install rkward'
> should install it; and by launching
>
>     $ rkward
>
> it surely start a working version. I have no problem using quotes either.
>
> Dirk
>
> | Thank you in advance,
> |
> | Matt
> |
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> |
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