another vote for ubuntu here - works for me, and quite trouble-free. add
the r-project repositories, and you're sure to always have the latest,
too. (if you don't care for the latest R, you can of course also just
get R from the distro's repos as well)
on 06/06/2008 05:22 PM Abhijit Dasgupta said the following:
I've had R on an Ubuntu system for about 18 months now, and getting R
up and running was a breeze. (I didn't realize it earlier, but Dirk
certainly gets my vote of thanks for his efforts in making this process
as easy as it is). Specially in terms of dependencies and the like, the
Ubuntu packaging system has made things specially easy. I've also had
the experience of installing R on a RedHat Enterprise System on a new
server at university, and the dependencies issues was much more
problematic (albeit, I wasn't allowed to use yum because of the way our
IT people had set it up), specially at the compiler level. Just my
limited experience in this area. In any case, I'm not going back to
Windows now if not forced; I've been quite happy with my experience in
the Linux world.
Abhijit
Markus Jäntti wrote:
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
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