Running R in Ubuntu...really basic..sorry

I think the most popular way of running R is using emacs with the ESS
plugin. Following links under   http://cran.r-project.org/ , Ubuntu has
ess and emacs precompiled due to their popularity, other distributions
may . Once you have R installed you can install emacs (which you may
already have) and the ess plugin.

ess has it's own web site.. you can google ...and a active email
distribution.

Cheers
Paul 



-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de>
To: Vera, Pedro L. <pvera at health.usf.edu>
Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org <r-sig-debian at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Running R in Ubuntu...really basic..sorry
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:39:35 +0200

Hi Pedro,

I really like your post, as I am a passionate user of the vim R plugin
for Linux as well :) Actually, an improved derivative has just been
posted to vim.org
(http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2628), with omni
completion, some GUI Menu items and some more additional features, in
case anyone is interested. I haven't tested it, but it may be worth the
upgrade.

Johannes

* Vera, Pedro L. <pvera at health.usf.edu> [090510 19:30]:

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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[r-sig-debian-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Judson
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Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:50 AM
To: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
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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