Log in at one of the terminals with your user name and password. Select the program Terminal from the “Applications”/“Accessories” menu. You will see a command prompt, which looks something like this:
[netid@ragnar ~]$
The tilde means that you are in your personal directory on ragnar, i.e., /home/netid/
, where netid
is your user name. This prompt accepts standard Unix/Linux commands.
You can now start programs by typing in R
, stata
, xstata
, mathematica
, or matlab
. Here stata
loads Stata in command line mode and xstata
starts the graphical user interface (GUI) instead. The same applies for Matlab.