Hi I'm starting off with both R and Linux Mint. During a recent R course, I had multiple difficulties with installing updates needed for the course. As such, I'd like to hit the restart button with fresh installs of Linux and R. I would appreciate your help with which Linux platform works best with R, and how to go about getting all the updates installed for both programs. Many thanks, Jack [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
I suggest that you post to the r-sig-debian list instead of here. I think you are more likely to get good answers to your query there. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:44 PM, jax200 <jax200 at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi > > I'm starting off with both R and Linux Mint. During a recent R course, I > had multiple difficulties with installing updates needed for the course. > > As such, I'd like to hit the restart button with fresh installs of Linux > and R. I would appreciate your help with which Linux platform works best > with R, and how to go about getting all the updates installed for both > programs. > > Many thanks, Jack > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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.
Perhaps r-sig-debian is more appropriate, though it is not clear to me that a debian based linux is in fact the best for running R. Of course "best" is not clearly defined here, but I highly recommend Archlinux. Best, Ista On Jun 9, 2016 6:47 PM, "Bert Gunter" <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:> I suggest that you post to the r-sig-debian list instead of here. I > think you are more likely to get good answers to your query there. > > Cheers, > Bert > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along > and sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:44 PM, jax200 <jax200 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm starting off with both R and Linux Mint. During a recent R course, I > > had multiple difficulties with installing updates needed for the course. > > > > As such, I'd like to hit the restart button with fresh installs of Linux > > and R. I would appreciate your help with which Linux platform works best > > with R, and how to go about getting all the updates installed for both > > programs. > > > > Many thanks, Jack > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 13:44:52 -0700 jax200 <jax200 at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi > > I'm starting off with both R and Linux Mint. During a recent R > course, I had multiple difficulties with installing updates needed > for the course. > > As such, I'd like to hit the restart button with fresh installs of > Linux and R. I would appreciate your help with which Linux platform > works best with R, and how to go about getting all the updates > installed for both programs. > > Many thanks, Jack >Any Linux distribution is likely to work well with R. The chief hick-up is keeping you R release up to date. Typical linux releases including Ubuntu, Opensuse and Fedora R versions available through their system updates all tend to lag behind the R release version available on CRAN. Asking for help will inevitably result in responders asking about the R version you used, and, if it is significantly older than the current version, you will be asked to update R and retry your problem procedure. That means that you will probably want to handle updating R manually to remain current rather than rely on the Linux release updating system. JDougherty