[Blindmath] Accessing R for Stats

[Robin Williams]

Matthew,
It's probably advisable to run R from the terminal interface, so run the
file rterm.exe from the \bin directory. 
  By default the base package is loaded which will do most of the things you
want. It's a while since I've used it, but I believe to run additional
packages you do:
Lib packagename
Or it might be:
Library packagename
  It's well worth reading the introductory user's guide which can be found
through the help menu in the RGui you mentioned, or on the R-project
website.
  It is quite a big learning curve but is well worth the effort, especially
if you have a major project to contend with. The help search feature is also
very useful, to search for a topic just do:
Help.search("topic")
HTH    

Robin Williams.
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From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Matthew_2010
Sent: 07 August 2009 03:18
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: [Blindmath] Accessing R for Stats

HI all,

I've been reading the R for windows help files and can't seem to find any 
information regarding launching any stats modules. In fact I have no idea 
what's going on with this thing as I've looked through the menus and found 
nothing relating to actual usability of this application. When I launch R 
the title bar reads "R GUI." Is this what I want? Did I install the right 
version of R? I installed the version for windows and used the full install 
and ran with the default settings. At this point I'm wondering how I can 
load a stats package. I see that within the "package" menu there are many 
choices, but I don't know how to proceed. Please inform as to where to go 
from here. I do like the fact that this application appears to be pretty 
accessible though I've not pushed it very hard.

Thanks,

Matthew



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