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
gnomeGUI on FC4
2 messages · White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC, Brian Ripley
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.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595