R help - Nov 2013 - R Beginner - Need Perhaps 5 - 10 Minutes of R User Time to Learn Few Basics

I have finally decided that I will learn R and learn it very well. For now I am
using a program that a friend of mine developed to do some advanced statistical
analyses. I downloaded RStudio to my machine. [Perhaps RStudio is not the best
platform to work from -  I have heard that Rattle is sort of the new standard.]
I have so far been able to highlight the rows of the code that I wish to run,
but then I somehow turned off seeing the output. I also cannot find where I
would locate the output window. Yes, frustrated.

Would any kind soul be interested in helping kickstart my R learning? I have
JoinMe installed on my machine so I figure we can do it interactively. It should
not take more than a few minutes. I am already very experienced with both C and
VBA languages as well as SPSS syntax so there is not much need to worry about me
being too much of a novice.

Thank you very much in advance.

Zach Feinstein
zfeinstein@isgmn.com<mailto:zfeinstein@isgmn.com>
(952) 277-0162
(612) 590-4813 (mobile)


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Type the following into your console window:

install.packages("fortunes")
library(fortunes)
fortune("brain surgery")

(It's not quite apposite, but close enough).

Cheers,
Bert


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Zach Feinstein <zfeinstein at isgmn.com>
wrote:
> I have finally decided that I will learn R and learn it very well. For now
I am using a program that a friend of mine developed to do some advanced
statistical analyses. I downloaded RStudio to my machine. [Perhaps RStudio is
not the best platform to work from -  I have heard that Rattle is sort of the
new standard.] I have so far been able to highlight the rows of the code that I
wish to run, but then I somehow turned off seeing the output. I also cannot find
where I would locate the output window. Yes, frustrated.
>
> Would any kind soul be interested in helping kickstart my R learning? I
have JoinMe installed on my machine so I figure we can do it interactively. It
should not take more than a few minutes. I am already very experienced with both
C and VBA languages as well as SPSS syntax so there is not much need to worry
about me being too much of a novice.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Zach Feinstein
> zfeinstein at isgmn.com<mailto:zfeinstein at isgmn.com>
> (952) 277-0162
> (612) 590-4813 (mobile)
>
>
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>
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-- 

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics

(650) 467-7374

This is not an R question per se.  It really seems like an RStudio question. 
They have their own help forum and it is probably best to ask there.

My first thought was that you had just closed the output window in RStudio but
in my version, 0.97.449 under Ubuntu 13.10 the window automatically opens when
you send a command to R.

You have not said what operating system you are using. If in Windows, IIRC, you
can just open an RGui or RTerminal and work there.  Just open the script in a
text editor and paste it (preferably line-by-line) and see what happens. 
Actually just type in something like 1 + 1 and see what happens

In Linux open a terminal window, start R and do the same. No idea about Macs

This way you will get an idea if the R installation or the RStudio installation
is likely the culprit.

It sounds like a faulty RStudio installation to me but who knows. An RStudio
session should look more or less like this http://www.rstudio.com/ide/ . If you
don't have those four panels then you have an RStudio problem.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zfeinstein at isgmn.com
> Sent: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:57:17 +0000
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] R Beginner - Need Perhaps 5 - 10 Minutes of R User Time to
> Learn Few Basics
> 
> I have finally decided that I will learn R and learn it very well. For
> now I am using a program that a friend of mine developed to do some
> advanced statistical analyses. I downloaded RStudio to my machine.
> [Perhaps RStudio is not the best platform to work from -  I have heard
> that Rattle is sort of the new standard.] I have so far been able to
> highlight the rows of the code that I wish to run, but then I somehow
> turned off seeing the output. I also cannot find where I would locate the
> output window. Yes, frustrated.
> 
> Would any kind soul be interested in helping kickstart my R learning? I
> have JoinMe installed on my machine so I figure we can do it
> interactively. It should not take more than a few minutes. I am already
> very experienced with both C and VBA languages as well as SPSS syntax so
> there is not much need to worry about me being too much of a novice.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> Zach Feinstein
> zfeinstein at isgmn.com<mailto:zfeinstein at isgmn.com>
> (952) 277-0162
> (612) 590-4813 (mobile)
> 
> 
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> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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Hi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Zach Feinstein
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:57 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] R Beginner - Need Perhaps 5 - 10 Minutes of R User Time to
> Learn Few Basics
> 
> I have finally decided that I will learn R and learn it very well. For
If you really decided to invest in learning R you shall first read R-Intro
documentation especially chapters 2 and 3 and 1.11.

Eventually you could read whole 102 pages document. It shall not take you more
than a week and after that you will be able to do quite sophisticated analysis.

I do not know Rstudio or Rattle but once you taste R console way maybe together
with some suitable editor (I use Tinn-R) you will hardly need any GUI add-on.

Regards
Petr
> now I am using a program that a friend of mine developed to do some
> advanced statistical analyses. I downloaded RStudio to my machine.
> [Perhaps RStudio is not the best platform to work from -  I have heard
> that Rattle is sort of the new standard.] I have so far been able to
> highlight the rows of the code that I wish to run, but then I somehow
> turned off seeing the output. I also cannot find where I would locate
> the output window. Yes, frustrated.
> 
> Would any kind soul be interested in helping kickstart my R learning? I
> have JoinMe installed on my machine so I figure we can do it
> interactively. It should not take more than a few minutes. I am already
> very experienced with both C and VBA languages as well as SPSS syntax
> so there is not much need to worry about me being too much of a novice.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> Zach Feinstein
> zfeinstein at isgmn.com<mailto:zfeinstein at isgmn.com>
> (952) 277-0162
> (612) 590-4813 (mobile)
> 
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-
> guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.