[Blindmath] Accessing R for Stats

[Matthew_2010]

Robin, you are talking to me in Chinese here. I have little idea as to what 
you've conveyed but I do agree with you that the pay off will be there once 
I learn this application. ...Just looked in the bin folder and found what 
you were referring to. My next question, now what? Until then, I'll continue 
reading the user's manual and I hope its the right one as I've at this point 
reading tons of installation info rather than how to use info.

Thanks,

Matthew

Matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Williams" <robster3 at hotmail.com>
To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" 
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Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 4:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Accessing R for Stats


> 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.
> Mobile:
> 07525 809495
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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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