Question about graphical UI running R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron...

Tried out a couple of different options suggested earlier, but for some
reason I can only get Rcmdr to work properly. Not that that's a problem,
but it might have been nice to have a couple of other choices.

Just tried out JGR and ended up getting not found errors on several of
the menu choices. Installed OK. Just several key menu options such as
package manager don't work. Have I possibly missed something in my
setup, or has the cat some catching up to do to be compatible?

Interested in considering sci-views, but I get the impression from their
site that it is a windows only choice. On the mark, or have I missed
something?

Accepting the point that I'm an oddity for preferring an R GUI rather
than the CLI in Linux, can anybody out there who has dabbled with (or
used regularly) these two possibles advise on whether or not they are
worth fussing with on the recent issue of Ubuntu? Or should I just
accept that Rcmdr is a working option, shut up, and leave well enough
alone?

Regards...

Hi,

If you want a full-fledged R IDE for Linux,
have a look at the StatET plugin for Eclipse:

http://www.walware.de/goto/statet/

Eclipse support is not tremendous for Ubuntu
(no recent builds to be apt-get installed),
so you will need to download and unpack
the stable release of Eclipse Classic from

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

and then install from within
Eclipse

Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install...
Search for new features to install

You need to use

  http://www.walware.de/eclipseupdates

as a (new) Eclipse update site and walk through
the wizard.

To get started (launching R, configuring for Sweave etc.),
you can access the cheat sheets via

  Help -> Cheat Sheets... -> StatET: R in Eclipse.

For questions, there is a dedicated mailing
list at

http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/mailman/listinfo/statet-user

I hope this is useful.

Kind regards,
Tobias

If you want a full-fledged R IDE for Linux,
have a look at the StatET plugin for Eclipse:

http://www.walware.de/goto/statet/

Eclipse support is not tremendous for Ubuntu
(no recent builds to be apt-get installed),
so you will need to download and unpack
the stable release of Eclipse Classic from

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

and then install from within
Eclipse

Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install...
Search for new features to install

You need to use

  http://www.walware.de/eclipseupdates

as a (new) Eclipse update site and walk through
the wizard.

To get started (launching R, configuring for Sweave etc.),
you can access the cheat sheets via

  Help -> Cheat Sheets... -> StatET: R in Eclipse.

For questions, there is a dedicated mailing
list at

http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/mailman/listinfo/statet-user

I hope this is useful.

Kind regards,
Tobias

This seems interesting. I've downloaded the archive. Two questions...

1) I assume sudo file-roller will be the command to start things off. Where
should I be pointing it at to drop the files in the right place?

2) Other than a current R install, of course, are there any other packages
I should make sure are present on my machine so that things go as they should?