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Dear Jaime, I have some experience with R on Linux. I have used both openSUSE and Fedora and have been very pleased with the ease of use, installation, and performance of R on both. The only thing I have struggled with is finding a good text editor that behaves somewhat like Notepad++ and NPPtoR on Windows. I've tried several, including Kate and gEdit, and I ended up liking Kate best mostly (I think) for it's simple and effective way of sending commands to an integrated console. RKWard was nice, but a bit buggy when I used it a year ago, especially with regard to viewing graphics. In my somewhat limited experience with these distros, I didn't find much to recommend one over the other, but there is a whole world of arguments about distros on the web. I would mostly pick one based on how many people you can find to help you out -- this may be a strong argument for Ubuntu which seems to have a large user base. Or you can pick one based on your favorite color. Now that I'm using Fedora, I sort of miss the green of openSUSE. One general comment: I highly recommend installing the Linux distro in VirtualBox if you are just testing it out. I've had very good performance with this, and if you end up not liking a particular distro, you can just throw away the file you installed it in. My $0.02 for what it's worth. Matt On 9/16/2010 1:05 PM, Jaime Burbano Girón wrote: Hi all. I am thinking in start using Linux slowly while I stop using Windows. I would like to know if there is a special distribution of Linux recomendend for the use of R and GRASS, or in general if there is a better distribution of linux than the others, honestly I just have heard about Ubuntu.Aditionally I would like to know if someone has a negative experience in the migration from Windows to Linuxm and if there are some tips for complete succesfully this process. Thanks for your answers. My best regards._______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matthew Landis, Ph.D. Research Scientist ISciences, LLC 61 Main St. Suite 200 Burlington VT 05401 802.864.2999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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