[R] New installation

John Dougherty
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:45:48 -0000

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