[R] R GUI for Gnome?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Tom Colson wrote:

> Just installed R 64 Bit precompiled binaries on Fedora Core 3 (Kernel
> 2.6.10)....http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/redhat/fc3/x86_64/R-2.0.1-0.f
> dr.1.x86_64.rpm

Was it not SuSE yesterday?

I am glad it works: it is hard to test RPMs as all our x86_64 machines 
were cloned from the one I built that RPM on.

> And R seem to start right up. Problem....I a windows slave...and miss the
> handy R gui that come with the windows version (for doing repetitive tasks
> like loading packages and changing directories).
>
> If I try R -g XLL...it still starts in the terminal mode. R --gui-gnome
> returns GNOME GUI not available in this verions.
>
> A read of the manual reveals that I must compile GNOME Support with
> ./configure --with-gnome.
>
> But I'm at a loss as to how to configure/compile R for 64 Bit using the
> source.

The same way you do it for 32-bit platforms: there is a manual with full 
details.  On FC3 with enough tools (my machine has them all)

unpack tarball
./configure --with-gnome
make

is all that is needed (except to make sure you run that version and not 
the RPM).


You are making assumptions about that GUI: it does not do anything like as 
much as the Windows one. It might be easier just to learn the command-line 
equivalents.

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