Julie Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > > I am a system admin who has just set up R-2.3.1 in suse 9.1 (opteron) > for a previous windows user. Please forgive any obvious stupid questions :) > > We are struggling with a number of things. > > 1. is there a gui interface ? How do we use it ? R --gui just gets us > to the command line.
Not really. The incantation is "R --gui=tk" or "gnome" or "X11" but the two former are quite sketchy (proof of concept, really). The last one is the default, but not with menus etc., just windows for graphics. > 2. how do we do unix commands like cd ? Any shell command can be executed via system(). This is in a subshell, so of course cd has no effect on return: look up setwd() > 3. can we define default directories - eg for data files ? Not in any "standard" way AFAIK. There is a number of ways you could create your own convention (e.g. via environment variables), though. > 4. we want to use this mainly in batch mode once we get our act > together - are there any good examples of batch scripts we can use as > crib sheets. Depends on what you want to do. There are quite a few documents around with example code and several books have their scripts made public. > 5. I installed some packages earlier - but now I am obviously doing > something wrong > > install.packages(gnomeGui) > Error in install.packages(gnomeGui) : object "gnomeGui" not found Quotes needed. In general, do your self a favour and read at least the Intro and Admin manuals from. http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.