[rkward-devel] looking for startup script under openSUSE

Tue Nov 11 20:23:50 UTC 2008

Dear Finn and other developers,

I've just looked up /usr/local/bin/ but found no startup script as you suggested. For OpenSUSE and the like, can you please suggest other possible locations?

When I search for "rkward" as root, I found the followings,

opt/kde3/bin/
opt/kde3/share/apps/
opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/en/
usr/lib64/R/library/
usr/lib64/R/library/rkward/R/

Thanks in advance.

Horace Tso

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From: stfs [mailto:stfs at fs-analyse.dk]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:35 AM
To: Horace Tso
Subject: Re: [rkward-devel] questions on RKWard

Hi Horace
Firstly, it may be better to ask help questions on the help list.
To your question. Try getwd() to see where the workspace is located, then go hunting there for something that looks like a workspace.
When R starts it looks for an existing workspace in the current folder and perhaps somewhere else (?). Every time you close R it will ask to save the workspace.

About startup arguments, the startup script is '/usr/local/bin/rkward' (at least on Ubuntu). You may find the upstart command in there and change it.

I'm also extremely pleased with rkward - I think it could be a major selling point to universities and others who need a professional and accessible statistical package.

Best regards
Finn

On 2008-11-10 18:57, Horace Tso wrote:
Finn, yes indeed I meant workspace. The original problem was, a mysterious workspace is loaded every time I launch Rkward. I don't want that workspace, but there is no way to tell Rkward not to load it.

I figured out a trick over the weekend, which may be non-standard but it works just fine for me. Right now, I have an icon created for Rkward on the KDE panel (ie, the bar at the bottom of the screen, kind of like Windows' Quick Launch) so that I could launch by clicking the icon. I was able to right-click it and choose Properties. In Properties, there is a field where I could tell it where to start. By default, it's left blank. When i specify a folder, the mysterious workspace is no longer loaded.

Still, a question for you : is there any way to tell Rkward the usual command-line options, such as --no-restore, --no-site-file, etc.

Thank you for responding.

Horace

PS. So far Rkward has worked out quite well for me. I'm looking forward to the next release.

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From: stfs [mailto:stfs at fs-analyse.dk]
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 2:23 AM
To: Horace Tso
Cc: r-help at r-project.org<mailto:r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [rkward-devel] questions on RKWard

Hi Horace
I suppose by 'image' you mean the workspace ?

If that's the case it always has to run in a workspace thus creating one in memory if you don't choose one yourself.

You may want to go into 'Settings > RKWard Settings > General' and change 'Startup Actions'.

If, on the other hand, you are referring to a graph (ie. bargraph etc.) that you made in an earlier session this comes from the the .rkward folder in your home folder (ie. ~/.rkward)
There is an option to reset output in the edit menu (if the output window is active)

Regards
Finn

On 2008-11-05 23:34, Horace Tso wrote:
Folks,

I'm making progress moving from Windows to Linux and have RKward up and running. I read somewhere that Rkward's supposed to be the Tinn-R for linux and Tinn-R has worked out great for me. So naturally I'd like to do the following, if possible,

1. How to ask Rkward not to load the last saved image. Right now whenever it starts, it loads an image from some obscure corner of my directory. I can't quite figure out where it gets that image from. On the command line, I can do --no-restore. But there seems to be no place to sneak in these command line options under Rkward.  A startup config file hidden somewhere?

2. Customize CTRL-keys. Just out of the box, many menu options do not have a control key associated with them. Any way to pick my favorite key?

3. I'm used to typing ?command on the R-console and get a HTML help page pops up. But when I do that, a shockingly large window comes up and complains in many words about some error which I can't quite figure out what it's saying (sorry don't have linux in front of me right now).

4. I see there is an 'Output' tab by default. But command results are sent to R-console, and nothing seems to happen in 'Output'.

I have R 2.7.1 running under KDE on openSUSE 10.3.

TIA.

Horace

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