I am no expert in this, so I'll just talk from my little experience. I think you should find no problems with any of the three distributions you list. I started running R with Red Hat in my box without problems. Next I switched to SuSE (about 7 months ago) because of some development tools (e.g., ddd), and a variety of other programs that I use, that come "pre-packaged" in SuSE. I've been happily running R (and compiling from sources) using SuSE without any trouble. And I am now thinking about switching to Debian (because it is a free distribution). I think that use of R per se will probably not allow you to decide between the three distributions you list, and you'll need some other criteria. Ramon On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Jens Oehlschlägel wrote:> Hello, > > I'd like to ask whether there is a prefered linux distribution for use with > R (Suse, Redhat, Debian) and what fortran compiler is recommended (f77 or > f2c)? > > Thank you > > > > -- > Dr. Jens Oehlschlägel > Analyse > BBDO InterOne > Grünstr. 15 > 40212 Düsseldorf > > Tel.: +49 (0)211 1379-187 > Fax.: +49 (0)211 1379-461 > http://www.bbdo-interone.de > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > 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 > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._-- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Dept. Zoology and Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1381 email: rdiazuri at students.wisc.edu (NOTE: starting 15-July-2000 new email: ramon-diaz at teleline.es) phone: 608-238-8041 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hello, I'd like to ask whether there is a prefered linux distribution for use with R (Suse, Redhat, Debian) and what fortran compiler is recommended (f77 or f2c)? Thank you -- Dr. Jens Oehlschl?gel Analyse BBDO InterOne Gr?nstr. 15 40212 D?sseldorf Tel.: +49 (0)211 1379-187 Fax.: +49 (0)211 1379-461 http://www.bbdo-interone.de -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 05-Jul-00 Jens Oehlschlägel wrote:> Hello, > > I'd like to ask whether there is a prefered linux distribution for use with > R (Suse, Redhat, Debian) and what fortran compiler is recommended (f77 or > f2c)?R runs on a wide variety of platforms and there is no preferred one. Normally differences between Linux distributions are very slight: at one point in time they will have different versions of the same software. Packaged binaries of R are provided for the three major Linux distributions that you mention. There is currently a problem with dynamically loading Fortran on Red Hat 6.2, so you should avoid this for the time being. Martyn -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Jens Oehlschl?gel wrote:> > Hello, > > I'd like to ask whether there is a prefered linux distribution for use with > R (Suse, Redhat, Debian)I think it?s up to you which Distribution you prefer. If you use Debian, there are no R-contrib *.deb packages, you have to install the source-packages with the R tool "INSTALL" (I think this is the recommended way). For Suse there are available rpms, which also (should) work with RedHat.>and what fortran compiler is recommended (f77 or > f2c)?f2c is not a compiler. It converts fortran code to c code. You need one of this if you want to compile R on your own. The configure script looks for a fortran compiler and if it doesn?t find one, it searches for f2c. Don?t know if you need this when installing one of the R-binary distributions. But you also need f77 or f2c to install a source contrib package. I?m using f2c and havn?t any trouble yet. Bye, Sven -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._