Originally Posted by
samden
I am running Xubuntu dapper on an iMac G3.
I installed R through Synaptic by marking r-base for installation. Synaptic marked a number of dependent packages, and I installed them all.
However R did not show up in my applications menu. I can start R in a terminal through the command line, but it only comes up in the terminal - R does not open in its own window.
Should I have selected a GUI to install for R? What file should I install for this?
R does not have a GUI. It strictly a CLI based environment. There are other packages that have been developed to try and put a GUI on top of R, but I don't know if any of them are in the Dapper repos.
Three such 'add-ons' are:
Rcmdr: R commander - run R as root, and install it from CRAN using the following commands (one line at a time):
Code:
sudo R
install.packages('Rcmdr')
q()
A window will come up asking you to choose a mirror. Choose one and the package should get installed. After installation, quit R with the q() command. You can then run R again as normal user and load the Rcmdr GUI with the command JGR: Java GUI for R - JGR is java based, and so should be platform independent. Google it and you should get to the home page. I've never actually tried it.
Rkward: This one looks the most promising, but it still looks like its early in development. Not sure if there are Dapper .debs available or not.
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