R help - Mar 2007 - R GUI in Ubuntu?

Dear all,

I am very new to R and find the terminal-based UI a little daunting. 
(That's probably the wrong thing to say!) Having searched the Packages 
it seems that I can have either a Gnome-based or Java-based GUI for my 
Ubuntu machine. However, I can get neither to work.

Having run R as root, I then run the following command:
install.packages("gnomeGUI", dependencies=TRUE)

The output of which is:
checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
configure: error: conditional "HAVE_ORBIT" was never defined.
Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gnomeGUI'
* Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/gnomeGUI'

I have checked to see if I have all dependencies installed - it seems as 
though I have. No luck! So I try the Java-based GUI with:
install.packages("JGR",dep=TRUE)
library(JGR)
JGR()

No luck. So, out of R I try:
sudo R CMD javareconf

Then in R, if I check the library with:
library(JGR)

I get:
Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'rJava'
Error: package 'rJava' could not be loaded

HMMmmm - still no joy! I guess I am missing something very basic here?!

Thanks in advance, Andy

I have used RKWard for KDE. It has quite a lot of
functionality, though I 
haven't used it much, as I prefer ESS (command line).
The website is at 
http://rkward.sourceforge.net/.

Cheers.



 
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OK, so I did:
sudo R CMD javareconf

followed by the following in R as root:
install.packages("JGR",dep = TRUE)

which I think went OK because if I do:
library()

then JGR is listed. From the terminal:
"Packages in library '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library':

JavaGD                  Java Graphics Device
JGR                     JGR - Java Gui for R
rJava                   Low-level R to Java interface"

BUT, if I then run:
JGR()

then I get:
Error: could not find function "JGR"

I am confused...?!?

Thanks in advance, Andy

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:05:15PM +0100, Andy Weller wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am very new to R and find the terminal-based UI a little daunting. 
>> (That's probably the wrong thing to say!) Having searched the
Packages
>> it seems that I can have either a Gnome-based or Java-based GUI for my 
>> Ubuntu machine. However, I can get neither to work.
>>
>> Having run R as root, I then run the following command:
>> install.packages("gnomeGUI", dependencies=TRUE)
>>
>> The output of which is:
>> checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
>> configure: error: conditional "HAVE_ORBIT" was never defined.
>> Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gnomeGUI'
>> * Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/gnomeGUI'
>>
>> I have checked to see if I have all dependencies installed - it seems
as
>> though I have. No luck! So I try the Java-based GUI with:
>> install.packages("JGR",dep=TRUE)
>> library(JGR)
>> JGR()
>>
>> No luck. So, out of R I try:
>> sudo R CMD javareconf
> 
> I think you are close. Do the JGR install _after_ the javareconf as it
> needs the correct values.
> 
> Also make sure you use the Sun Java packages you get for Ubuntu.
> 
> Hope this helps, Dirk
> 
>> Then in R, if I check the library with:
>> library(JGR)
>>
>> I get:
>> Error: .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'rJava'
>> Error: package 'rJava' could not be loaded
>>
>> HMMmmm - still no joy! I guess I am missing something very basic here?!
>>
>> Thanks in advance, Andy