>Just about that, yes, you can use Sage just as a distribution of scientific >software. On the commanline, just enter $ sage -sh and you are inside the so >called sage environment. There, you can start any of it's programs, and in >your case, you can start R and install the R commander. Via this environment >you basically bypass everything of sage and you have direct control of all >tools. (i.e. theoretically, you could download and install a binary version >of R from their website while being in that environment, replacing the one >from sage) >Unfortunately, I tried it and I got errors installing the Rcmdr package ..
>H For sake of completeness I have to add that I just did sage -sh R install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies=TRUE) library(Rcmdr) in my fresh sage build, and R Commander is working as expected. Truly great stuff ... emil -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org