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@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ install.packages('mkin', repos = 'http://r-forge.r-project.org') ``` If R-Forge is lacking behind or if you prefer, you can install directly from -github using the `devtools` package: +github using the `devtools` package. ```s require(devtools) -install_github("mkin", "jranke") +install_github("mkin", "jranke", quick = TRUE) # quick = TRUE avoids vignette rebuilds ``` ## Background @@ -104,15 +104,21 @@ or the package vignettes referenced from the ## GUI -There is a graphical user interface. It depends on the gWidgetsWWW2 package -from John Verzani which also lives on github. +There is a graphical user interface that I consider useful for real work. It +depends on the gWidgetsWWW2 package from John Verzani which also lives on +github. Installing gWidgetsWWW2 yields a lot of warnings concerning overly +long path names. This is because the JavaScript library ExtJS is installed +along with it which has lots of files with long paths to be installed. ```s require(devtools) install_github("gWidgetsWWW2", "jverzani") ``` -You simply start the GUI from your R terminal with latest mkin installed. +You start the GUI from your R terminal with latest mkin installed as shown below. +You may also want to adapt the browser that R starts (using +`options(browser="/usr/bin/firefox")` on linux, or setting the default browser +on Windows from the browser itself). Development was done with firefox. ```s require(mkin) |