Hi Wade, Wade Wall wrote:
I first installed through the package manager, but was unable to start R without opening a script file. So I installed from the tarball, but am still unable to open R using any commands; ESS loads into a buffer; but I can't use M-x-R to open R. the only way I can open R is to open a
are you sure R is installed?
script file first. Maybe my question is, how do I create a new script file, type some commands, open R, and run script from the file?
this is a simple session which should work to create a new script file, typing some commands, opening R and run the whole content from the buffer in R. Please note that there might be a message like Cannot read history file /your/file/path
"C" refers to the CTRL key and "M" to the Meta key (-> ALT) C-x C-f myscript.r rnorm(100) C-x 2 C-x o M-x R C-x o C-c M-b I hope this helps you further, Roland ______________________________________________ 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.
