phguardiol at aol.com
2007-Nov-10 11:33 UTC
[R] from XPPro to Linux what distribution to use for R ?
Dear R users I m planning to move to Linux to use R (currently under Win XPPro on a 32bit PC with 4 Go RAM), I have 2 questions: - is there a recommended "version/distribution" of Linux to run?R and Bioconductor packages: Fedora ? Ubuntu ? Suse ? Debian ? - Regarding Fedora, I see that now it is version 8 available on the web, but on R website I can only see R Fedora 7 version (no F8); so?does R for Fedora 7 work with Fedora 8 ? Thanks Philippe Guardiola [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
phguardiol at aol.com wrote:> Dear R users > > I m planning to move to Linux to use R (currently under Win XPPro on a 32bit PC with 4 Go RAM), I have 2 questions: > - is there a recommended "version/distribution" of Linux to run?R and Bioconductor packages: Fedora ? Ubuntu ? Suse ? Debian ?They all will work with R.> - Regarding Fedora, I see that now it is version 8 available on the web, but on R website I can only see R Fedora 7 version (no F8); so?does R for Fedora 7 work with Fedora 8 ?I'd recommend to compile your version of R yourself from sources. It's easy, just follow the R Installation and Administration manual. Uwe Ligges> > Thanks > > > Philippe Guardiola > > [[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.
Prof Brian Ripley
2007-Nov-10 14:46 UTC
[R] from XPPro to Linux what distribution to use for R ?
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, phguardiol at aol.com wrote:> Dear R users > > I m planning to move to Linux to use R (currently under Win XPPro on a 32bit PC with 4 Go RAM), I have 2 questions:> - is there a recommended "version/distribution" of Linux to run?R and > Bioconductor packages: Fedora ? Ubuntu ? Suse ? Debian ?Any of those. I'd say the main reasons for choosing a Linux distribution should be the availability of support first and individual preference second. There are so many distributions just because none is best for everyone.> - Regarding Fedora, I see that now it is version 8 available on the web, > but on R website I can only see R Fedora 7 version (no F8); so?does R > for Fedora 7 work with Fedora 8 ?F8 was released on Thursday: it has R RPMs available as part of Fedora. You can also build from the sources. I expect RPMs will arrive on CRAN in a few days, but there are a few issues that might delay them (one is reported in this thread https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-November/047397.html). Although there are binaries on CRAN for several distributions, they are also to found on some of the distributions' own repositories and elsewhere. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595