I would really like to see a good introduction to Emacs, and will check out that link. I know that Emacs and ESS are supposed to be the best, and are the most customizable. The reason I put the R Commander GUI instead of Emacs/ESS is because in my first attempt to get R on Ubuntu Linux, I did successfully get Emacs/ESS working (sadly, I don't remember how exactly), but found it too frustrating. Again, I'm sure it's the best in the end, but here's what was driving me nuts:
Copy/Paste is not Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v...I figured it out, but don't remember what it is. Entering a _ automatically creates a <-, and you must enter __ to get _. There is no "stop" button (hopefully there is one in R Commander, haven't explored yet). It kept trying to establish a working directory, and was inconsistent in when it would accept what directory. I was also looking at the JGS GUI. Online screenshots look incredible, but I didn't go with it because it depends on Java, which is not open-source, and I'm really liking that philosophy, but to each his own. Thanks for the link, I'm anxious to try to figure out Emacs/ESS. I'll go look at it now. Cheers. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/installing-R-on-Ubuntu-tp10025949p21899227.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
