R help - Aug 2005 - gnomeGUI on FC4

It seems nice that R is part of the 'walled garden' of applications
specifically configured to run under Fedora Core 4 (Linux). The gnomeGUI has a
separate installation routine under FC4 and yum tells me it's installed.
I've even found an executable for it in /usr/lib/R/bin/exec. However, as far
as I can tell, it doesn't do anything. Since the documentation is rather...
sparse... I'm not exactly sure what it's supposed to do anyway. As an
experiment, I removed the RPM and downloaded the library using R. The list of
errors generated by trying to install the library was rather spectacular, so I
won't waste bandwidth printing it at the moment. Is there a simple way to
get this library/program running or should I just wait for further development?

Thanks.

Chuck

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC wrote:
> It seems nice that R is part of the 'walled garden' of applications
> specifically configured to run under Fedora Core 4 (Linux). The gnomeGUI 
> has a separate installation routine under FC4 and yum tells me it's 
> installed. I've even found an executable for it in /usr/lib/R/bin/exec.
> However, as far as I can tell, it doesn't do anything. Since the 
> documentation is rather... sparse... I'm not exactly sure what it's
> supposed to do anyway. As an experiment, I removed the RPM and 
> downloaded the library using R. The list of errors generated by trying 
> to install the library was rather spectacular, so I won't waste 
> bandwidth printing it at the moment. Is there a simple way to get this 
> library/program running or should I just wait for further development?
R --gui=gnome is how to run it.

That is described in `An Introduction to R' (the manual we ask all users 
to read) and the main documentation (as documented in the packages's 
README) is in the R Installation and Administration Manual.


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