On 20-Feb-08 21:51:54, Edna Bell wrote: > Dear R Gurus: > > I'm trying to find R on another Linux system. > > I'm using the find command, (surprise), but I only want to see the > output where it exists, not all of the other stuff. > > Is there an option that I could select, please? > > Right now I have > > find / -name R > > TIA, > Sincerely, > Edna
It depends on precisely what you want to find. If you just want to locate the command "R" to run R, then, assuming that when you're logged in your $PATH contains what it should, the command which R should find it for you. E.g.: $ which R /usr/bin/R You may well find that your 'find' command generates a stream of "permission denied" messages. Since these emerge on the "stderr" channel (No 2) rather than on "stdout" (No 1), you can do find / -name R 2>/dev/null However, since all the R libraries have a subdirectory called R, you can still get a lot of output. But maybe you want that, in this case ... ! Basically, though, if R is there the main "R" command will be at /usr/bin/R, and the libraries will be at /usr/lib/R. You will also find an apparently identical "R" command at /usr/lib/R/bin/R but this is simply a symbolic link to /usr/bin/R Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 20-Feb-08 Time: 22:14:35 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
