installing R on Ubuntu
Dear Paul, I haven't read everything in this thread, but have a couple of comments relative to using the R Commander:
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Behalf Of Paul Heinrich Dietrich Sent: February-08-09 9:08 AM To: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] installing R on Ubuntu I would really like to see a good introduction to Emacs, and will check
out
that link. I know that Emacs and ESS are supposed to be the best, and are the most customizable. The reason I put the R Commander GUI instead of Emacs/ESS is because in my first attempt to get R on Ubuntu Linux, I did successfully get Emacs/ESS working (sadly, I don't remember how exactly), but found it too frustrating. Again, I'm sure it's the best in the end,
but
here's what was driving me nuts:
The R Commander isn't meant to be a serious programming editor, but rather a basic-statistics GUI. I think that you'll find it disappointing as an editor.
Copy/Paste is not Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v...I figured it out, but don't remember what it is. Entering a _ automatically creates a <-, and you must enter __ to get _. There is no "stop" button (hopefully there is one in R Commander, haven't explored yet).
There is no "stop" button in the Rcmdr; having one isn't be a bad idea, but I'm not sure how I could implement it in a platform-independent manner (or even, frankly, in a platform-dependent manner). Perhaps someone has a suggestion for doing that. Regards, John
It kept trying to establish a working directory, and was inconsistent in when it would accept what directory. I was also looking at the JGS GUI. Online screenshots look incredible,
but
I didn't go with it because it depends on Java, which is not open-source, and I'm really liking that philosophy, but to each his own. Thanks for the link, I'm anxious to try to figure out Emacs/ESS. I'll go look at it now. Cheers. -- View this message in context:
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