On 27 April 2008 at 10:57, Brian Lunergan wrote:
| My apologies for not explaining myself clearly but yes, that's more or
| less the mark I was aiming for. I suppose the Linux purists would think
| less of me, but I am more comfortable in a graphic workspace. Should be
| possible, shouldn't it? ;-)
While you need to consider the FAQ's strong endorsement of Emacs + ESS, your
best bet for a grpahical GUI is probably JGR. The Java side of things keeps
changing, and (as far as I know) we do not yet have a completely 'free' (in
the usual sense) set of tools to build JGR or I would have added JGR to
Debian a long time ago.
That said, I did build JGR before on some of my Ubuntu or Debian machines. I
do forget the details, but in a nutshell you need
-- one the Java 'java development kits', either
sun-java5-sdk or
sun-java6-sdk
[ and there is an outside change that
icedtea-java7-jdk
may also work, but I am not sure ]
where any one of these is just an 'sudo apt-get install ...' away
-- then tell R that you have Java via
sudo R CMD javareconf
and check the output for sanity -- it may get confused if you also have
Java bits of gcc like gij or gcj installed
-- now that you have Java and R knows it, start R via sudo (so that you can
write to /usr/local) and then do
install.packages("JGR", libs="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library",
repos="http://cran.ca.r-project.org";, dependencies=TRUE)
which should install rJava and JGR for you.
Let us know how it goes, and maybe bring follow-up questions to the dedicated
list r-sig-debian (which also covers Ubuntu), but note that you need to
subscribe there in order to post.
Hope this helps,
Dirk
--
Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
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