Another vote for Mint (I'm using Mint 11 on the desktop, 10 on the laptop).. ubuntu derivative with R 2.13.1, Rstudio (desktop/web) with no problems. I specified the apt deb location to my local CRAN server.
-c On 07/18/2011 12:55 PM, BooBoo wrote: > > You can point mint update at the debian testing repository if you want > a true rolling update (and know how to fix things when they break) or > at the mint repositories if you want the Mint folks to gather up and > test out things for a month before they pass the updates on to you. > The Mint debian experience is about the same as Ubuntu 10.10 - you can > do real work if you want or just fool around. I think it is a great > platform for using R and RStudio/StatET. > > Tom > > > > > On 7/18/2011 1:09 PM, denis brion wrote: >> According to >> http://landorsplace.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/weekend-wrap-up/, >> Mint LMDE can be seen as a real debian , but with a ca-one month lag >> (__if__ >> everything is OK, and __if__ they keep their choices). They add more >> user >> friendly (at least they claim) installers and interfaces, which are >> not likely >> to interfere with R or its dependencies, and non-free drivers (which >> ere not >> likely...) .... Their intended audience is likely to be beginners >> (but, as R is >> more difficult than bash scripting and OS installing, is Mint -rather >> meant for >> video/music playing, without too many efforts- necessary?). >> >> >> >> >> ----- Message d'origine ---- >> De : BooBoo<[email protected]> >> À : Dirk Eddelbuettel<[email protected]> >> Cc : [email protected] >> Envoyé le : Mer 13 juillet 2011, 18h 47min 54s >> Objet : Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.13.1 on Debian Systems? >> >> On 7/13/2011 12:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >>> On 13 July 2011 at 18:17, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta wrote: >>> | Hello, >>> | >>> | You can check at >>> | http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/squeeze-cran/ that it has >>> | not. >>> >>> You can check the Debian 'package page' here: >>> >>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/r-base.html >>> >>> R 2.13.1 was uploaded to Debian unstable the morning of its release. >>> >>> What is available on CRAN is a supplementary service which (for >>> Debian) is >>> provided by Johannes as explained in the README there.0 >>> >>> | 2011/7/13 BooBoo<[email protected]>: >>> |> I am running 32-bit and a 64-bit Linux Mint Debian systems and >>> the latest >> R >>> |> has not yet appeared whereas it has on a Xubuntu box. Is the >>> Debian update >>> |> out yet? >>> >>> So why are you asking about Debian when you are running Mint. Are >>> you mixing >>> binaries from different distribution? >>> >>> Dirk >>> >> I don't know much, but I know not to mix binaries from different >> distributions. I am using Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), which is a >> very nice distribution that is real Debian AFAIK. I have synaptic >> pointed at the UC Berkeley mirror, which does not appear to have >> 2.13.1 yet. >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Debian mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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