Chris, I can provide some personal experience, in that RedHat Linux has not only operated well, and is remarkably easy to set up, but seems to work as well as any Linux distribution with R. The default X-Windows setup looks pretty similar to MS Windows, which may make the transition easier. In fact, it was the on/off - finally off attitude of MathSoft toward producing a Linux version of S-Plus that started me looking for a replacement (at that time I was running Slackware, which also worked well, but was harder to set up). Jim -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On 06-Jul-98 Jim Lemon wrote:> In fact, it was the on/off - finally off attitude of MathSoft > toward producing a Linux version of S-Plus that started me looking for a > replacement.....I don't know how final you mean your 'finally off` to be taken but if I have heard and seen correctly a Linux version of the Unix S-Plus 5.0 should shortly be available. (And I can second your remarks about RedHat(5.0/5.1) and R). -------------------------------------- Alexander Volovics Dept. of Methodology & Statistics Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL. -------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._