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Dear "rkward" Team,<br><br> [0] Observing (partly) what one subpage (https://rkward.kde.org/Contact) of your project recommends, I am sending you herewith the output of "<b><tt>rk.sessionInfo()</tt></b>" (date of calling this function in "rkward" R console: 3rd March 2016)<br> -------START OF OUTPUT-------<br>RKWard version: 0.6.1<br>KDE version (runtime): 4.13.3<br>KDE version (compile time): 4.10.3<br>Local KDE directory: /home/ichhalt/.kde/<br>RKWard storage directory: /home/ichhalt/.rkward/<br><br>Debug message file(s) in use (these may contain relevant diagnostic output in case of trouble):<br>/tmp/rkward.frontend.n17001<br>/tmp/rkward.rbackend.J17010<br><br>R version (compile time): 3.0.0 (2013-04-03 r62481)<br>R runtime session info:<br>R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)<br>Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)<br><br>locale:<br> [1]
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C <br> [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8 <br> [5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 <br> [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8 <br> [9] LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8 <br>[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8<br><br>attached base packages:<br>[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
base <br><br>other attached packages:<br>[1] rkward_0.6.1<br><br>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):<br>[1] tools_3.0.2<br> -------END OF OUTPUT-------<br>...maybe this would help to resolve that which I really tried to put in few words below. Please note that I am not consciously using html format for emails under this address (as I was recently briskly feed-backed on), text-only mode is not available to and thus unapplicable for me thus far.<br> [a] I decided to delve into statistical programming language R in 2015, seeking to get a properly embeddable R GUI. Since
"rkward" was described to be suitable for R on a Linux system (mine: current Debian-flavour "Kubuntu" on a 64bit system) that uses KDE, I
choose the product you developed (current and still running version: 0.6.1).<br>
[b] In the meantime, I came across some problems concerning R package
and/ or R version update that are by now apparently irresolvable. R package
update via R console of "rkward" seems to be/ have gone defective: <br>
[b1] that is on entering the respective command
("install.packages(packageName)"), "rkward" R console either gives back
it (1); could not find the mirror or (2); the very R package is
unavailable for R version 3.0.2. Without the latter error message, I
would not have wanted to very early learn about the uggly fact that I do
not really know which (bulk of) package(s) to replace to finally
update/ upgrade R to a higher version number-and whether "rkward" could perform such a task. <br> [b2] Now that R
version number approaches 3.5, I intend to better learn about the
problems I have no oversight over so far. It is high time to determine how to
'liberate' R from some constraints I experienced as (3); using "rkward" R
console instead of R-within-bash console resulted in unforeseen (non)results when some commands were not
yielding what logically and normally they would have had to
deliver. I was told (via email exchange with) by an author of a a fairly instructive R book, Mr
Norman Matloff, that the GUI had not full take on R (he put it something like that there was something "masked") as it could and
should have if all the intrinsic prerequisites of the respective book
examples were fulfiled.<br> [c] Hence, I would like to know
whether there is already awareness of this (bunch of) issue(s) and/ or
whether there existed a (projected) resolution to this problem. I am also and still a beginner in Linux which would require me to have some guidance on working my way out in an bash-only style (or, alternatively, how one would have to proceed when using the fine-tune package manager "Synaptic"). I can, additionally,
vaguely remember that a pop-up window during the installation process of
"rkward" and/ or "R" on my system said something like "originally only
conceived to run on lubuntu"-maybe that is the "source of all evil"...<br> [d] As I have, (un)fortunately, seen some moments ago
on the rkward home page, version 0.6.4 is available for installation.
Would, thus, a higher "rkward" version's installation heal the problems (and make descriptions given by me in paragraphs [b1] and [b1] obsolete) of an "rkward" version unfunctionable when it comes to
updates "the regular way"?<br> [e] Thank you very much in advance.<br> <br> Best regards,<br> Markus Hofstetter</div></div></div>