[BlindRUG] New R User Having Trouble

[Henrik Bengtsson]

When typing just 'q', or it's alias 'quit', you're not calling that
function but end up displaying it's arguments and code.  To call a
function you need to use parentheses afterward.  Thus to quit R, type
'q()' or 'quit()', e.g.

> quit()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]:

This is no different from calling any other functions in R, e.g. compare:

> sqrt(9)
[1] 3

to

> sqrt
function (x)  .Primitive("sqrt")

/Henrik

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 11:26 AM Amy Albin via BlindRUG
<blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm totally blind and trying to use R version 3.5.3 with JAWS 2020.
> When I type (q) it doesn't ask me to save my workspace, it just brings
> up some code that I don't understand.
> Also there is no Rprofile.site file in the etc folder, just a file called x64
> This is in contrast to what the R materials here show.
> https://r-resources.massey.ac.nz/LURNBlind/LURNBlindch2.html
>
> Would someone please help me get started? I'm about to be a psychology
> graduate student, and I really need to be able to use statistical
> software. Thanks!
>
> Best,
>
> Amy Albin
>
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