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Interactive use of R is achieved through the command-line interface
(CLI) provided by the Console
component—this is where users issue commands for R to parse and then
evaluate. RStudio provides a console that behaves pretty much like any other
console R users have seen, such as the one provided by the RGui for Windows.
This chapter describes command-line usage in RStudio, along with some of the
components providing direct support for interactive usage.