If you want to keep your R installation up to date use the installation instructions available for ubuntu at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/. Follow the instructions there and you will be able to use standard Ubuntu update procedures afterwards. (Delete your old version first). Download rstudio (32 or 64-bit version as required) from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/.. Open in software-centre and install. You can keep rstudio up to date by downloading the new version and repeating the process.
Verzani, Getting started with Rstudio, O'Reilly would be a good starting point to learn RStudio. PACKT Publishing have several other books on Rstudio. R an Rstudio are almost the same on windows and Linux. I had an earlier edition of ubuntu unleashed 2017. You might have a look at the material at https://itsfoss.com/5-free-ubuntu-books-for-beginners/. You do need to know how to manage files in linux. Installing and updating software using apt-get is really simple. John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park Rathfarnham Dublin 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com On 4 July 2017 at 20:39, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posti >> ng-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posti > ng-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
