I'm running R 2.4.1 on SuSE Linux 10.2. My system is an AMD based PC with 2 Gigs of ram and abundant HD space. I have always run R from the console without problems, but in the interests of broadening R's user-base, and reducing the complexity of my computing environment, I am hoping to convince my PTB that R is a viable alternative to Excel under Windows - heh. Since they like pretty pictures I'm experimenting with graphic interfaces for R in linux. The Windows interface is fine, but I would prefer to stick to linux if at all possible. I've been trying the JGR environment and so far it loads and looks nice but it doesn't seem to be able to find the key libraries such as "base." There are two errors that appear in the initial messages - one being that JGR can't load .../stats.so, and that R_GlobalEnv is an undefined symbol. And the other is that options("defaultPackages") is not as shown below. I presume this is probably a compilation error on my part and would like to know what I've done wrong. The initial messages when JGR loads are below. Thanks, JWDougherty Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : unable to load shared library '/usr/local/lib/R/library/stats/libs/stats.so': /usr/local/lib/R/library/stats/libs/stats.so: undefined symbol: R_GlobalEnv Loading required package: JavaGD Loading required package: iplots Creating per-session help links... Loading required package: grDevices During startup - Warning message: package stats in options("defaultPackages") was not found