I have both Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat and CentOS systems, and primary run R on the Debian and RedHat machines. I have encountered few problems running R on RedHat/CentOS, but I do think the Debian/Ubuntu package management system, combined with the kind provision of packages, makes life a lot simpler. (Yes, many thanks to Dirk!).
Also, the ease of installing and maintaining among with the highly useful user forums of Ubuntu would lead me to recommend that particular distribution. Regards, Markus On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 14:13 -0400, steven wilson wrote: > Dear all; > > I'm planning to install Linux on my computer to run R (I'm bored of > W..XP). However, I haven't used Linux before and I would appreciate, > if possible, suggestions/comments about what could be the best option > install, say Fedora, Ubuntu or OpenSuse which to my impression are the > most popular ones (at least on the R-help lists). The computer is a PC > desktop with 4GB RAM and Intel Quad-Core Xeon processor and will be > used only to run R. > > Thanks > Steven > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Markus Jantti Abo Akademi University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iki.fi/~mjantti ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
