Is there a recommended/preferred version of Linux for using with R? Is there one
version of Linux that R-users prefer, and/or that works "better" with
R? I am working with "large" datasets, and hope to take advantage of
as much RAM as reasonable (8-32gb?).
Thanks in advance!
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If your criterion is use of resources, then you might be more interested in which flavor of Linux makes it easy to turn the X-window server off. No windows or mouse, more RAM and CPU cycles for R. As I recall, the only Linux where that might be a problem is Ubuntu, because there's no convenient way to kill the X-server. Also look at Puppy Linux --http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy300 -- which has a rep for very small use of resources. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Thomas Pujol <thomas.pujol at yahoo.com> wrote:> Is there a recommended/preferred version of Linux for using with R? Is there one version of Linux that R-users prefer, and/or that works "better" with R? I am working with "large" datasets, and hope to take advantage of as much RAM as reasonable (8-32gb?). > > Thanks in advance! > > > > --------------------------------- > [[elided Yahoo spam]] > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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. >-- I can answer any question. "I don't know" is an answer. "I don't know yet" is a better answer.
There are binaries on CRAN for several distros. There is the R-sig-debian list for debian users. As far as I know, there are no mailing lists for other distros. This may indicate a preference for debian among R users. Or it may mean that debian is so difficult to use with R that it requires a mailing list. :-) As a debian user, I prefer the first explanation. Cheers, Simon. On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 13:36 -0700, Thomas Pujol wrote:> Is there a recommended/preferred version of Linux for using with R? Is there one version of Linux that R-users prefer, and/or that works "better" with R? I am working with "large" datasets, and hope to take advantage of as much RAM as reasonable (8-32gb?). > > Thanks in advance! > > > > --------------------------------- > [[elided Yahoo spam]] > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.-- Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. Lecturer and Consultant Statistician Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia Room 320 Goddard Building (8) T: +61 7 3365 2506 http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqsblomb email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au Policies: 1. I will NOT analyse your data for you. 2. Your deadline is your problem. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey.