Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-20 Thread Poizot Emmanuel
Brian Edward a écrit : Hello all, I have been a R user for about a year now, running on a MS Windows machine. I am in the process of making a complete switch to open-source. Linux is a new world to me. Ubuntu was my selection of the various distributions. Please pardon this very basic

Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-20 Thread Uwe Ligges
Poizot Emmanuel wrote: Brian Edward a écrit : Hello all, I have been a R user for about a year now, running on a MS Windows machine. I am in the process of making a complete switch to open-source. Linux is a new world to me. Ubuntu was my selection of the various distributions.

Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Uwe Ligges wrote: Poizot Emmanuel wrote: R under linux (Ubuntu or other distributions) is not exactly as it is under windows. Under linux, you have to use a shell (or a terminal) to launch R and use it. The main difference between windows and linux version of R, is

Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-20 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Uwe Ligges wrote: Brian Edward wrote: Hello all, I have been a R user for about a year now, running on a MS Windows machine. I am in the process of making a complete switch to open-source. Linux is a new world to me. Ubuntu was my selection of the various distributions. Please pardon

Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-20 Thread Rainer M Krug
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: SNIP After R starts you can manage help files nicely using help.start() to use a browser. I often use dillo, the world's fastest graphical browser, by specifying options(browser='dillo') before help.start(). WOW - dillo is BRILLIANT for this purpose. Thanks for

Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-20 Thread Martin Maechler
UweL == Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:03:30 +0200 writes: UweL Brian Edward wrote: Hello all, I have been a R user for about a year now, running on a MS Windows machine. I am in the process of making a complete switch to open-source. Linux

Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-20 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Rainer M Krug wrote: Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: SNIP After R starts you can manage help files nicely using help.start() to use a browser. I often use dillo, the world's fastest graphical browser, by specifying options(browser='dillo') before help.start(). WOW - dillo is BRILLIANT

Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 20 September 2006 at 15:42, Martin Maechler wrote: | Further note that Ubuntu (as all other Linux distributions | derived from Debian) provides ESS as a standard package you can | simply install, e.g., via Synaptic. | Note that you need to activate the 'Universe' | {in the sources that

Re: [R] Linux configuration (Ubuntu)

2006-09-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
Brian Edward wrote: Hello all, I have been a R user for about a year now, running on a MS Windows machine. I am in the process of making a complete switch to open-source. Linux is a new world to me. Ubuntu was my selection of the various distributions. Please pardon this very basic