[R-gui] R GUI for Linux (using Java)

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> I think you may be unaware that it installs and runs fine on a fully-featured
> Linux distribution.  On Debian or Ubuntu, all you need to do is to install
> the sun-java5-jdk (and to click once through the Java license thingie) as
> well as a recent R such as r-base-core_2.4.1. After which all you need to is
> 
> $ sudo R CMD javareconf			# to set or refresh Java paths for R
> $ echo "install.packages("JGR",repos="http://cran.r-project.org",depend=TRUE)"\
> 	| sudo R --slave
> 
> and you have a working JGR --- which happens to be a working 'R GUI for Linux
> (using Java)" as per the Subject line :)
> 
> I am sure that a FC, SuSE, Gentoo, ... system can be setup similarly.

1. What's the minimum Java required? Does it need the JDK or will the
JRE suffice?

2. Will it work with R-2.4.0, or do I need to have something more recent?

I can certainly test this all out and get it working on Gentoo. I have
both 1.4 and 1.5 JDK, but I'm using the "stock" R-2.4.0 and don't plan
to go beyond that until the next version gets into alpha testing.