[BlindRUG] New R User Having Trouble

[JooYoung Seo]

Or, you can quit R by pressing Ctrl+D. I don't recommend using Alt+F4
for Rterm.exe. The dialog box only pops up for  R gui, not forR Term.

Hope that helps.

Best,

JooYoung


On 12/2/20, Henrik Bengtsson via BlindRUG <blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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