Evening folks: Not sure where this fits into the picture so bear with me for a few moments while I think out loud to lay out the particulars of my problem.
-would love to be employed using R for a living but so far I have just worked with it on my home machine to develop a basic level of skill with it. -I run Ubuntu linux 8.04 LTS on a machine with a 2.5GHz Celeron processor and 1.2GB of memory. The Heron runs sprightly enough to suit on that combination. -noted on Cran that with the intro of the newest LTS edition, Lucid Lynx, support for the Heron is continued on suffrage only. -So, I tried to upgrade. Tried both Kubuntu and Ubuntu. Kubuntu dialled out and connected to my ISP but failed to get anywhere after authentication, Ubuntu failed to recognize my 3.5" A drive, and they were both unbelievably sluggish on my system so out they both go and I'm in the process of getting things set back up the way I had them with 8.04. I realize this more OS than R, but I thought someone in the group might have some ideas or suggestions they'd care to share, off-list of course. Is there a way around this situation that doesn't involve huge outlays in new hardware? Is there another flavour of Linux that would work with my system and allow me to maintain a toe hold in the R camp so that I've got it as a marketable skill somewhere down the road? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Regards... -- Brian Lunergan Nepean, Ontario Canada _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
