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> On Jul 4, 2017, at 4:58 AM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote: > > Hi > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 4, 2017 1:02 PM >> To: r-help@r-project.org; PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz>; r-help <r- >> h...@r-project.org> >> Subject: Re: [R] R and UBUNTU startup >> >> Q1. No. >> >> Q2. What do you do? Did you follow the instructions at [1]? If you go to the >> top >> level of the R help system you should be able to open the manuals. ?help > > No. I installed from Ubuntu Software Center (by point and click method) as I > am not very familiar with sudo terminal issues and I thought that following a > way which is offered by Ubuntu is enough. If you do that you get an outdated version of R. And I think you only get the base version although I'm not completely sure. I've gone through a similar transition myself recently although it was from OSX. I think you need to bite the bullet and use the method in the CRAN README. I decided to try RStudio. But rstudio will find whatever version is installed so that's a separate decision. >> >> Q3. Not that I know of. If you have difficulty with R on Linux then you >> should >> focus on learning how to use Linux in general... and learn what X-Windows is. > > Hm. I have some book about Linux from about 2005, which I think is quite old > and I am not sure if almost 15 years old recommendations are still valid. The Ask.Ubuntu website is useful as are the r-sig-debian Archives. > >> But just as with Windows, googling your problem will usually lead to stepwise > > I searched all questions and especially question 1 but was not able to find > such concise answer. > > Anyway, thank you for all answers. I will need to find my way through Linux. > Probably the most problematic will be to get rid of Windows habits and > shortcuts. > > Best regards > Petr > >> solutions. Note that most issues with R should not require entering your >> password, though some supporting system features may require that you use >> the package manager to install Ubuntu packages. >> >> [1] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ >> -- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >>> On July 4, 2017 2:15:19 AM PDT, PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote: >>> Dear all >>> >>> I have 3 questions. Due to some reason I switched from Vista to Ubuntu >>> on home PC. I was used to start with Rgui.exe. However I am not able to >>> find it under Ubuntu and R starts as terminal (probably Rterm). >>> >>> Question 1. Is Rgui.exe available on linux? >>> >>> In Windows doc folder I can find manuals, however I did not find doc >>> folder in Ubuntu. I found somewhere that manuals need to be installed >>> separately by make .... >>> >>> Question 2. Is it necessary to install manuals or I made some mis ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
