Re: [R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-11 Thread AJ Rossini
Andrew Choens andy.choens at gmail.com writes: I am interested in hearing from members of the community, REvolution Computing employees/supporters (although please ID yourself as such) and most anyone else. I can see what they say on their website, but I'm interested in getting other

Re: [R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-11 Thread gunksta
A.J. Rossini wrote: Ubuntu is a commercial distribution, for loose definitions of commercial. Why shouldn't they cut a deal with Revolution, who is doing a very similar thing? If you want something closer to the ideal of volunteer-driven free as in beer and speech, you'll need to

Re: [R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-05 Thread Hans W. Borchers
I updated to Ubuntu 9.10 Beta yesterday, and yes I do see the same message and I am a bit irritated. I don't want to read these 'marketing' lines any time I start up R. I simply deleted the lines from /etc/R/Rprofile.site for now, but I am still wondering who put that in. Is there any deeper

Re: [R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-05 Thread David M Smith
Andrew is correct: the upcoming release of Ubuntu (Karmic Koala) will feature the REvolution R distribution. (I am a REvolution Computing employee.) Our developers have been working with Canonical's representatives over the past several months to upgrade R in Ubuntu to 2.9.2 and to include the

Re: [R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-05 Thread Ista Zahn
I'm a fellow (K)Ubuntu user, although I'm waiting for KK to be released before upgrading. I just wanted to point out that presumably this advertisement can be avoided by installing R as instructed at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ rather than using Ubuntu's version. I usually do this

Re: [R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-05 Thread Andy Choens
On Monday 05 October 2009 09:38:21 am David M Smith wrote: Andrew is correct: the upcoming release of Ubuntu (Karmic Koala) will feature the REvolution R distribution. (I am a REvolution Computing employee.) Our developers have been working with Canonical's representatives over the past

[R] Ubuntu, Revolutions, R

2009-10-04 Thread Andrew Choens
For those who don't follow Ubuntu development carefully, the first Beta for the next Ubuntu was recently released, so I took my home system and upgraded to help out with filing bugs, etc. Just to be clear, I am not looking for help with the upgrade process. I've had R, and a few miscellaneous