--- "Rau, Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help > > On Behalf Of bogdan romocea > > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:49 PM > > > > I would suggest that you consider another GNU/Linux distribution,
> I don't think it is necessary. Mandrake 10.1 is fine for > running R.[1] I have Mandrake 10.1 (Community) at home > running on my notebook and I was able to compile R without > any problems - just using the software that was shipped with > this distribution. It is certainly not necessary; even Windows is fine for running R. However, assuming R is not the only package to be installed and then upgraded, switching from something like Mandrake to something like Mepis may result in significant time savings, which is what I care about most. (Your mileage may vary.) I used Mdk for a couple of years and prefer to not remember how many hours I wasted on something as trivial as installing and upgrading packages. (Compilation will not save you always from having to manually upgrade other libraries, especially as your Mdk installation gets older.) ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
