[R] How to start R

[Erik Iverson]

On 08/07/2010 10:29 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi steve,
>
> After starting R which command shall I use to exit it rather than close the
> console.  exit/quit did not work.  Thanks

What does "did not work" mean?

help.search("quit")

leads you to:

?quit


 > quit()

or

 > q()

should terminate the R session.

I suggest you read "An Introduction to R" at 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html, where q() is first mentioned 
in section 1.5.