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authorJohannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de>2014-05-05 17:50:25 +0200
committerJohannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de>2014-05-05 17:50:25 +0200
commit52227a9a9dba06d42ad7939ab574c9e71bdc940e (patch)
treee7c58f5e4bbb2d103aa577bede394a87e37ea256
parentba9a4030a3472cfe3d2257e07fe4949224d0c016 (diff)
Update of README
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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)

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