Hi folks, Just finished installing R on Ubuntu 10.04, running on a VM, download following packages on repo; r-base littler r-cran-plotrix r-cran-qtl r-cran-rggobi But I could not get R started. r is on /usr/bin/r On console evoking it just hanging there. Any additional packages I need to install? Thanks B.R.
What exactly do you mean with 'just hanging there'? Do you expect anything else? When I start R on Debian squeeze (with the command 'R'), I see R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. Natural language support but running in an English locale R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R.>and I can start working from there. Tim On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:30:29AM -0700, Stephen Liu wrote:> Hi folks, > > Just finished installing R on Ubuntu 10.04, running on a VM, download following > packages on repo; > > r-base > littler > r-cran-plotrix > r-cran-qtl > r-cran-rggobi > > But I could not get R started. r is on /usr/bin/r > > On console evoking it just hanging there. Any additional packages I need to > install? Thanks > > B.R. > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.-- -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20100807/5d7787bb/attachment.bin>
Hi steve, After starting R which command shall I use to exit it rather than close the console. exit/quit did not work. Thanks B.R. Stephen ----- Original Message ---- From: Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> Cc: Tim Gruene <tg at shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de>; R-help at r-project.org Sent: Sat, August 7, 2010 9:18:42 PM Subject: Re: [R] How to start R Hi, On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi Tim, > > I got it. Thanks for reminding me. It should be R (capital letter) not r.Indeed, you were typing in a "little r", as opposed to a capital R. Now, note the package list you installed: r-base littler r-cran-plotrix r-cran-qtl r-cran-rggobi One of which is "littler" -- aka "little R", which is a scripting front end for R :-) http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html Enjoy, -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact
On 08/07/2010 10:29 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:> Hi steve, > > After starting R which command shall I use to exit it rather than close the > console. exit/quit did not work. ThanksWhat does "did not work" mean? help.search("quit") leads you to: ?quit > quit() or > q() should terminate the R session. I suggest you read "An Introduction to R" at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html, where q() is first mentioned in section 1.5.