Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-27 Thread George N. White III
On 27 February 2018 at 06:34, José Abílio Matos wrote: > On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03.10.31 WET Max Pyziur wrote: > > > ggplot2, tibble, tidyr dplyr. They seem to be popular and becoming more > > > integral to R. > > > > > > As for the point about 435 on Ubuntu vs the ~140 on Fedora: I assum

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-27 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03.10.31 WET Max Pyziur wrote: > ggplot2, tibble, tidyr dplyr. They seem to be popular and becoming more > integral to R. > > As for the point about 435 on Ubuntu vs the ~140 on Fedora: I assume those > 435 are reflective of popularity, frequency of usage, and mainte

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 21.02.2018, Max Pyziur wrote: > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora > (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). See https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html There's a plethora of different packages. You can either install

Re: [Off-topic] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/18 11:14, Max Pyziur wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > [...] >> >> # Non-R packages: >> fonts-KOI8-R.noarch >> fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch >> fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch > > Wow! Does someone still use KOI8-R in a universe of UTF8 and Unicode? > > That might be like ask

[Off-topic] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: [...] # Non-R packages: fonts-KOI8-R.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi.noarch fonts-KOI8-R-75dpi.noarch Wow! Does someone still use KOI8-R in a universe of UTF8 and Unicode? perl-Tree-R.noarch There's an R SIG for Fedora, which looks like it's been quie

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 06:28:57PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). Is there a rat

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I have used R since 1997 (version 0.4) and Fedora since Fedora 1 (2003). Ubuntu which my wife used for 10-12 years (before she saw the light, as it were) can not even begin to match Fedora's support and user community. With regard to R: I prefer installing the packages using install.packages()

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread George N. White III
On 20 February 2018 at 19:28, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. > > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than > Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). > > Is there a rationale for this? > Counting the number

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
Max Pyziur wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: >>> I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. >>> >>> I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater >>> support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R >>> rpm packages). >>> >>> Is th

Re: [EXT] Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Weiner, Michael
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Max Pyziur wrote: I count about 435 on Ubuntu. fyi, MP -- Out of over 6000 packages available from CRAN alone, 435 is nothing. I dont believe the number of packages available from a distribution's repository is reflective of the level of support. R makes it extremely easy

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 06:28:57PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: > Greetings, > I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than > Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). > Is there a rationale for this? I'm not sure about

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). Is there a rationale for this? I don't use R o

Re: R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/18 07:28, Max Pyziur wrote: > I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. > > I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora > (more R > deb packages than R rpm packages). > > Is there a rationale for this? I don't use R or Ubuntu.  But I wonder if coun

R as on Ubuntu and Fedora

2018-02-20 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu. I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages). Is there a rationale for this? Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com __