R SIG Debian - May 2009 - Running R in Ubuntu...really basic..sorry

Hi, I've actually run R quite a bit in Windows.  I've had a release
8.04 of Ubuntu running a laptop for 3 days now.  After struggling for
much of that time to install R, I finally figured out that Dell
shipped with the sources.list obsolete or just plain wrong.  So I
finally got it installed last night (for some reason v2.6.2, not
v2.9.x).  This morning I was able to download and install the
LearnBayes package.  My biggest problem right now is that I don't know
how to run R except as a local-directory command in the Terminal.
Certain R commands cause the terminal to go into some changed state
and not take any more commands.  Right now for example I ahve a last
line that is darkened in over (END) and it's sitting there. Any
advice?

Oh, if you suspect something in your sources.list (specific to Dell)
email ma and I'll explain.  Thanks.  Room533

I would make sure that you have the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://cran.case.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/

That will get you the R 9.2.0.  Then I would also run the following:

sudo apt-get install ess

That will install emacs (an editor) and some extra code for running R
(and S plus).  As long as your file has a .R extension (foo.R, for
example), you will see some R related buttons and menus.  Look up
"emacs speaks statistics" via google for more information.  Using ess
is the best way to enter and debug code, IMO.

Hope this helps,
Michael





On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Judson <judson0423 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, I've actually run R quite a bit in Windows. ?I've had a release
> 8.04 of Ubuntu running a laptop for 3 days now. ?After struggling for
> much of that time to install R, I finally figured out that Dell
> shipped with the sources.list obsolete or just plain wrong. ?So I
> finally got it installed last night (for some reason v2.6.2, not
> v2.9.x). ?This morning I was able to download and install the
> LearnBayes package. ?My biggest problem right now is that I don't know
> how to run R except as a local-directory command in the Terminal.
> Certain R commands cause the terminal to go into some changed state
> and not take any more commands. ?Right now for example I ahve a last
> line that is darkened in over (END) and it's sitting there. Any
> advice?
>
> Oh, if you suspect something in your sources.list (specific to Dell)
> email ma and I'll explain. ?Thanks. ?Room533
>
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-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter

I meant to send a reply to this post to the list, but because I didn't pay
attention, it just went to the original poster. I apologize for that. Here's
my post:

I've been running R in linux (Antix; a MEPIS derivative; Debian Unstable)
for some time now without any problems (even from the terminal window). Recently
though, I've switched to vim (a very useful text editor) which can be made
(with a use of a plugin) to call up an R window and send commands (actually
entire blocks of commands) to R. I've been very impressed with this option
and I would recommend it. Unfortunately, there's a learning curve (almost as
steep as R's) for vim as well. However, I think the results are well worth
the effort.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Pedro

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Subject: [R-sig-Debian] Running R in Ubuntu...really basic..sorry

Hi, I've actually run R quite a bit in Windows.  I've had a release
8.04 of Ubuntu running a laptop for 3 days now.  After struggling for
much of that time to install R, I finally figured out that Dell
shipped with the sources.list obsolete or just plain wrong.  So I
finally got it installed last night (for some reason v2.6.2, not
v2.9.x).  This morning I was able to download and install the
LearnBayes package.  My biggest problem right now is that I don't know
how to run R except as a local-directory command in the Terminal.
Certain R commands cause the terminal to go into some changed state
and not take any more commands.  Right now for example I ahve a last
line that is darkened in over (END) and it's sitting there. Any
advice?

Oh, if you suspect something in your sources.list (specific to Dell)
email ma and I'll explain.  Thanks.  Room533

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Hi,

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Judson <judson0423 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, I've actually run R quite a bit in Windows. ?I've had a release
> 8.04 of Ubuntu running a laptop for 3 days now. ?After struggling for
> much of that time to install R, I finally figured out that Dell
> shipped with the sources.list obsolete or just plain wrong. ?So I
> finally got it installed last night (for some reason v2.6.2, not
> v2.9.x). ?This morning I was able to download and install the
> LearnBayes package. ?My biggest problem right now is that I don't know
> how to run R except as a local-directory command in the Terminal.
> Certain R commands cause the terminal to go into some changed state
> and not take any more commands. ?Right now for example I ahve a last
> line that is darkened in over (END) and it's sitting there. Any
> advice?
I am not quite sure of the exact question here, but looking at the two
replies, I think it has something to do with a "gui". If not then this
short reply from me is moot. If so, then take look here:
http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/

I am personally involved in Rkward - it is a KDE based GUI which does
most of the basic stuff nicely. We are about to make a new release, so
if you are interested join the rkward-users at lists.sourceforge.net
mailing list. For a quick "screenshot" see here:
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Screenshots

Hope this plug is not too objectionable to the list!
-- 
Prasenjit