[R] R and UBUNTU startup

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/07/2017 12:46 PM, Michael Friendly wrote:
> On 7/04/17 11:15 AM, PIKAL Petr 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?
> No, but you will find things nicer than Rgui by switching to R Studio,
> which you can use on all platforms.
>>
>> 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 mistake when installing from Ubuntu software repository.
> Just a guess: did you try man R?
> All R manuals should be installed by default,but I'm not sure where.

Running help.start() from within R should get you access to the HTML 
versions.  The pdf versions aren't always built; it depends on how you 
do the build.

Duncan Murdoch

>
>>
>> And question 3 is simple. Are there some kind of "Linux R for Windows dummies" available?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Petr
>>
>
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