Le dim. 4 juil. à 19:33, Brian Lunergan a écrit : > 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.
We don't want to guarantee LTS (as per Ubuntu) support of R for Hardy since our past experience in trying to do this for Dapper Drake proved hurtful. However, at the time, both R and Debian/Ubuntu releases changed a lot and we had to manually undo many changes to compile R on Dapper. So far, Hardy has been a no brainer. If things continue like that for a while, you should get fresh R binaries regularly. But things may change very quickly. I'm afraid if you want to stay on Hardy, you may eventually have to either live with an older release of R or compile it yourself. Regards, Vincent Goulet École d'actuariat, Université Laval _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
