[Blindmath] I have installed R, now what do I do?

[Roopakshi Pathania]

Hi Faiz,


Yes, you are correct.
After that when ever you press Enter or click on the icon, the command line version of R will open.
The first thing that you should type is "help()" without the quotes.

Also, I was following the responses to your previous email, and am wondering if you tried the Java Access Bridge with SPSS as Marry suggested?
While R is accessible, shouldn't you try if the statistical package that your class mates are using can work for you?

Regards

"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
~ John Maynard Keynes


--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Faiz Rasool <faiz7r at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Faiz Rasool <faiz7r at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] I have installed R,  now what do I do?
> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 9:56 PM
> Hi Jared,
> 
> If I have understood correctly, you are suggesting that I
> press the application key when R icon is highlighted. From
> there select properties, and change the following line
> "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.10.1\bin\Rgui.exe"RGUI.exe
> by typing RTERM.exe?
> I am using windows.
> thanks for your help.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Wright" <wright.jaredm at gmail.com>
> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics"
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] I have installed R, now what do I
> do?
> 
> 
> > Faiz, All of your shortcuts point to rgui.exe, which
> is the graphical user interface for R. In the same folder is
> a file called rterm.exe, and launching this program will run
> R at the command line. You might find it helpful to change
> the shortcuts for R to rterm.exe for easy access. This of
> course presuming you are using Windows.
> > 
> > Jared
> > 
> > 
> > On 2/1/2010 7:21 AM, Faiz Rasool wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> I have downloaded and installed R. Now I do not
> know what to do. When I start the program a window appears,
> but I do not find a place to type commands, and do not know
> where I would find the output of my commands.
> >> 
> >> I must confess that I am an absolute beginner to
> R, and to statistical packages. Perhaps this explains my
> problem with R. Can anyone help me in learning how to start
> using R?
> >> 
> >> Thanks all,
> >> faiz.
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