Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
Hi, Just to add to this thread (with my first ever R list post). I got a Dell Mini 9 (I think it is called the Inspirion 910 in the US?) yesterday running Ubuntu with 2GB and a 32 GB SSD. While the machine came with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS it is a version which has been compiled by Dell to suit the architecture of the Atom processor. As such, standard 386 binaries seem to cause problems and programs need to be recompiled. Downloaded R 8.2.1 source from CRAN this morning and it all compiled without error and runs very nicely (graphics windows seem appropriately sized for the screen etc). Paul Tsjerk Wassenaar wrote: Hi, For what it's worth, it's a trivial operation to replace the on-board 1Gb with a 2Gb module, which doesn't cost too much. Okay, being a bit demanding I also replaced the hard-disk with a 320 Gb one to harbour a dual boot ubuntu-eee / windows XP. But that does give a machine which is a worthy replacement of the once state-of-the art Acer Travelmate 800 I used to have. I happily run R and even virtual machines using VMWare. Truth be told, it being a netbook, you may want to rely on and connect to external computational resources for the real heavy stuff. Cheers, Tsjerk On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Ted Harding ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: On 08-Mar-09 17:44:18, Douglas Bates wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk wrote: At 08:47 05/03/2009, herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? One issue is whether you wish to use Linux or Windows. If you do use Linux I would advise picking a netbook with one of the standard distributions. The early EEE PC had Xandros and dire warnings about using the Debian repositiories. In fact I had no problem despite a total lack of experience although I am not sure what will happy with the recent move to lenny. Because I have used Debian Linux and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu for many years, I installed a eee-specific version of Ubuntu within a day or two of getting an ASUS eee pc1000. There are currently at least two versions of Ubuntu, easy peasy and eeebuntu, that are specific to the eee pc models. I started with easy peasy at the time it was called something else (Ubuntu eee?) and later switched to eeebuntu. In both cases packages for the latest versions of R from the Ubuntu package repository on CRAN worked flawlessly. I find the netbook to be very convenient. Having a 5 hour battery life and a weight of less than 3 pounds is wonderful. I teach all of my classes with it and even use it at home (attached to a monitor, USB keyboard and mouse and an external hard drive) in lieu of a desktop computer. (I have been eyeing the eee box covetously but have not yet convinced myself that I really need yet another computer). I develop R packages on it and don't really notice that it is under-powered by today's standards. Of course, when I started computing and even when I started working with the S language the memory capacity of computers was measured in kilobytes so the thought of only 1Gb of memory doesn't cause me to shriek in horror. Thanks for sharing your experiences, Doug. Given that devices like the EeePC are marketed in terms of less demanding users, it's good to know what it is like for a hard user. Further related comments would be welcome! I have to agree about the RAM issue too. My once-trusty old Sharp MZ-80B CP/M machine (early 1980s), with its 64KB and occupying a good 0.25 m^3 of physical space, would have to be replicated 2^14 = 16384 times over to give the same RAM (and occupy some 400 m^3 of space, say 7.4m x 7.4m x 7.4m, or about the size of my house). Now I have things on my desk, about the size of my thumb, with 8MB in each. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Mar-09 Time: 18:20:45 -- XFMail -- __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
Dear Dirk, As a Ubuntu newbie I was going by the information on the following couple of webpages which talk about the need to turn the i386 binaries into binaries for lpia architecture: http://mydellmini.com/forum/i386-packages-on-lpia--t3540s75.html http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6528287#post6528287 As I'm new to all this (a gradually reducing Windows addict)I was not sure which files from CRAN were needed for the 386 binary so opted not to use the script mentioned on the above webpage. R2.6.2 appears in the package manager on the Mini 9 but I decided I'd give compiling the latest version a shot. As I say I'm rather new to this so if anyone has any experience which suggests that the above is not relevant and you can just use the ubuntu binaries directly, I'd be happy to hear about it. All the best, Paul Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Paul, On 20 March 2009 at 13:41, Paul Norris wrote: | Just to add to this thread (with my first ever R list post). I got a | Dell Mini 9 (I think it is called the Inspirion 910 in the US?) So, it's sold as Dell Mini 9. I like those too and am considering buying one. | yesterday running Ubuntu with 2GB and a 32 GB SSD. | | While the machine came with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS it is a version which has | been compiled by Dell to suit the architecture of the Atom processor. | As such, standard 386 binaries seem to cause problems and programs need That's the first I hear of that. Can you back that up with that website, mailing list, ... discussion? To the very best of my knowledge, all x86 compatibles just work, including say the Via chips in some super-small mobos. All AMD and Intel chips work. However, the kernel and libc switched a while back to effectively only (as I recall) 586 and later are now supported. But all new chips work. | to be recompiled. Downloaded R 8.2.1 source from CRAN this morning and | it all compiled without error and runs very nicely (graphics windows | seem appropriately sized for the screen etc). Could you possibly try the Ubuntu binaries from CRAN ? They should just work. Vincent and Michael do a very nice job of recompiling my Debian packages. I actually run these Ubuntu builds at work (on amd64). Cheers, Dirk (aka the R maintainer for Debian and hence effectively for Ubuntu) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
Hi, For what it's worth, it's a trivial operation to replace the on-board 1Gb with a 2Gb module, which doesn't cost too much. Okay, being a bit demanding I also replaced the hard-disk with a 320 Gb one to harbour a dual boot ubuntu-eee / windows XP. But that does give a machine which is a worthy replacement of the once state-of-the art Acer Travelmate 800 I used to have. I happily run R and even virtual machines using VMWare. Truth be told, it being a netbook, you may want to rely on and connect to external computational resources for the real heavy stuff. Cheers, Tsjerk On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Ted Harding ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: On 08-Mar-09 17:44:18, Douglas Bates wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk wrote: At 08:47 05/03/2009, herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? One issue is whether you wish to use Linux or Windows. If you do use Linux I would advise picking a netbook with one of the standard distributions. The early EEE PC had Xandros and dire warnings about using the Debian repositiories. In fact I had no problem despite a total lack of experience although I am not sure what will happy with the recent move to lenny. Because I have used Debian Linux and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu for many years, I installed a eee-specific version of Ubuntu within a day or two of getting an ASUS eee pc1000. There are currently at least two versions of Ubuntu, easy peasy and eeebuntu, that are specific to the eee pc models. I started with easy peasy at the time it was called something else (Ubuntu eee?) and later switched to eeebuntu. In both cases packages for the latest versions of R from the Ubuntu package repository on CRAN worked flawlessly. I find the netbook to be very convenient. Having a 5 hour battery life and a weight of less than 3 pounds is wonderful. I teach all of my classes with it and even use it at home (attached to a monitor, USB keyboard and mouse and an external hard drive) in lieu of a desktop computer. (I have been eyeing the eee box covetously but have not yet convinced myself that I really need yet another computer). I develop R packages on it and don't really notice that it is under-powered by today's standards. Of course, when I started computing and even when I started working with the S language the memory capacity of computers was measured in kilobytes so the thought of only 1Gb of memory doesn't cause me to shriek in horror. Thanks for sharing your experiences, Doug. Given that devices like the EeePC are marketed in terms of less demanding users, it's good to know what it is like for a hard user. Further related comments would be welcome! I have to agree about the RAM issue too. My once-trusty old Sharp MZ-80B CP/M machine (early 1980s), with its 64KB and occupying a good 0.25 m^3 of physical space, would have to be replicated 2^14 = 16384 times over to give the same RAM (and occupy some 400 m^3 of space, say 7.4m x 7.4m x 7.4m, or about the size of my house). Now I have things on my desk, about the size of my thumb, with 8MB in each. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Mar-09 Time: 18:20:45 -- XFMail -- __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. Junior UD (post-doc) Biomolecular NMR, Bijvoet Center Utrecht University Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht The Netherlands P: +31-30-2539931 F: +31-30-2537623 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
At 08:47 05/03/2009, herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? One issue is whether you wish to use Linux or Windows. If you do use Linux I would advise picking a netbook with one of the standard distributions. The early EEE PC had Xandros and dire warnings about using the Debian repositiories. In fact I had no problem despite a total lack of experience although I am not sure what will happy with the recent move to lenny. Many thanks, Bernd Michael Dewey http://www.aghmed.fsnet.co.uk __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk wrote: At 08:47 05/03/2009, herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? One issue is whether you wish to use Linux or Windows. If you do use Linux I would advise picking a netbook with one of the standard distributions. The early EEE PC had Xandros and dire warnings about using the Debian repositiories. In fact I had no problem despite a total lack of experience although I am not sure what will happy with the recent move to lenny. Because I have used Debian Linux and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu for many years, I installed a eee-specific version of Ubuntu within a day or two of getting an ASUS eee pc1000. There are currently at least two versions of Ubuntu, easy peasy and eeebuntu, that are specific to the eee pc models. I started with easy peasy at the time it was called something else (Ubuntu eee?) and later switched to eeebuntu. In both cases packages for the latest versions of R from the Ubuntu package repository on CRAN worked flawlessly. I find the netbook to be very convenient. Having a 5 hour battery life and a weight of less than 3 pounds is wonderful. I teach all of my classes with it and even use it at home (attached to a monitor, USB keyboard and mouse and an external hard drive) in lieu of a desktop computer. (I have been eyeing the eee box covetously but have not yet convinced myself that I really need yet another computer). I develop R packages on it and don't really notice that it is under-powered by today's standards. Of course, when I started computing and even when I started working with the S language the memory capacity of computers was measured in kilobytes so the thought of only 1Gb of memory doesn't cause me to shriek in horror. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
On 08-Mar-09 17:44:18, Douglas Bates wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk wrote: At 08:47 05/03/2009, herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? One issue is whether you wish to use Linux or Windows. If you do use Linux I would advise picking a netbook with one of the standard distributions. The early EEE PC had Xandros and dire warnings about using the Debian repositiories. In fact I had no problem despite a total lack of experience although I am not sure what will happy with the recent move to lenny. Because I have used Debian Linux and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu for many years, I installed a eee-specific version of Ubuntu within a day or two of getting an ASUS eee pc1000. There are currently at least two versions of Ubuntu, easy peasy and eeebuntu, that are specific to the eee pc models. I started with easy peasy at the time it was called something else (Ubuntu eee?) and later switched to eeebuntu. In both cases packages for the latest versions of R from the Ubuntu package repository on CRAN worked flawlessly. I find the netbook to be very convenient. Having a 5 hour battery life and a weight of less than 3 pounds is wonderful. I teach all of my classes with it and even use it at home (attached to a monitor, USB keyboard and mouse and an external hard drive) in lieu of a desktop computer. (I have been eyeing the eee box covetously but have not yet convinced myself that I really need yet another computer). I develop R packages on it and don't really notice that it is under-powered by today's standards. Of course, when I started computing and even when I started working with the S language the memory capacity of computers was measured in kilobytes so the thought of only 1Gb of memory doesn't cause me to shriek in horror. Thanks for sharing your experiences, Doug. Given that devices like the EeePC are marketed in terms of less demanding users, it's good to know what it is like for a hard user. Further related comments would be welcome! I have to agree about the RAM issue too. My once-trusty old Sharp MZ-80B CP/M machine (early 1980s), with its 64KB and occupying a good 0.25 m^3 of physical space, would have to be replicated 2^14 = 16384 times over to give the same RAM (and occupy some 400 m^3 of space, say 7.4m x 7.4m x 7.4m, or about the size of my house). Now I have things on my desk, about the size of my thumb, with 8MB in each. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Mar-09 Time: 18:20:45 -- XFMail -- __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
Johannes Huesing wrote: chaogai chao...@xs4all.nl [Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 07:04:19PM CET]: I'm having similar experiences on my Acer Aspire One. Everything will work good. Only thing that takes a lot of time is compiling R if you are in the habit of doing so. On the Fedora version that came with my Acer Aspire One, I am even thinking of compiling R itself as the current R version is 2.6.0 ... Otherwise, everything seems fine and the keyboard is indeed the greatest letdown so far (the tiny left mouse button a close second). I did do that. Most practical is to get the R-devel from the repositories. It is the wrong version, will bring what you need to build regarding other dependencies. Then remove R-devel and you can get your 2.8.1 sources from CRAN. Not sure about the exact names of the things. Now happy on Suse 11.1 after a brief fling with the Fedora 10. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
Liaw, == Liaw, Andy andy_l...@merck.com writes: Are you sure that's dual atoms? AFAIK it has a single Atom N270 (single core) at 1.6GHz. With hyper-threading, you may see two cpus. Yep - that is exactly what is going on. Mike __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
chaogai chao...@xs4all.nl [Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 07:04:19PM CET]: I'm having similar experiences on my Acer Aspire One. Everything will work good. Only thing that takes a lot of time is compiling R if you are in the habit of doing so. On the Fedora version that came with my Acer Aspire One, I am even thinking of compiling R itself as the current R version is 2.6.0 ... Otherwise, everything seems fine and the keyboard is indeed the greatest letdown so far (the tiny left mouse button a close second). -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture mailto:johan...@huesing.name from such a trifling investment of fact. http://derwisch.wikidot.com (Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi) __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] R on netbooks et al?
Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? Many thanks, Bernd __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:47:25AM +, herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? I have R on my ASUS eeePC 1000H under Debian Linux and it works just fine. In my opinion the most limiting thing is the small keyboard. Everything else (RAM, Screen, CPU power) is what you would expect given the specs: Not the platform of choice for large-scale number crunching or writing elaborate programs but certainly good enough to do a little work on the train/plane/hotel/... cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik Technische Universität München Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? I've got R on my little EeePC as well. Great for most jobs and I highly recommend a DC/DC convertor for plugging into your car's cigarette lighter to get around the crap battery problem. Jim __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] R on netbooks et al?
Dear Bernd,
I fully subscribe to Jim and Philipp's posts, plus a note on operating
systems, case you're a Windows user. I've got an eeePC 900, standard
Xandros Linux version, happily running R. With LaTeX-Beamer installed,
weighing less than 1 Kg and with WiFi this makes for an excellent
companion on conferences and meetings. You can also get models with
built-in UMTS from telecoms.
As this was my first Linux box in my Windows-useR experience, the feel
of R was quite different at the beginning; then I started using
Emacs+ESS and i liked it so much that I took it over to Windows as well,
so now the feel is the same for me irrespective of the OS I'm on (plus
much, much more! but maybe you know that already).
As for the general user experience, be careful that SDD performance is
very erratic across models, which affects almost everything. See this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy8ZRoGbCxE if you like. My machine boots
in 25'' and is reasonably responsive anyway (file manager takes some
5-10'' to open up, but it's one of the slowest things; R loads
immediately; Emacs takes 5-10'' as well).
HTH
Giovanni
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From: Philipp Pagel p.pa...@wzw.tum.de
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With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to
get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard
disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel
with respect to R.
Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if
so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking
gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on?
I have R on my ASUS eeePC 1000H under Debian Linux and it works just
fine. In my opinion the most limiting thing is the small keyboard.
Everything else (RAM, Screen, CPU power) is what you would expect
given the specs: Not the platform of choice for large-scale number
crunching or writing elaborate programs but certainly good enough to
do a little work on the train/plane/hotel/...
cu
Philipp
--
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Lehrstuhl f?r Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universit?t M?nchen
Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan
85350 Freising, Germany
http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel
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Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
I've installed Ubuntu, Emacs, and R on my Samsung NC10 with 2 GB RAM. I think the keyboard is very usable on the NC10, and it has about 5-7 hours of battery life, which is also nice. R runs just fine on it. I'd consider paying extra for the Samsung just for the keyboard. herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? Many thanks, Bernd __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
Jim == Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au writes: I've got R on my little EeePC as well. Great for most jobs and I highly recommend a DC/DC convertor for plugging into your car's cigarette lighter to get around the crap battery problem. I run R on my Eee PC as well - no problems there. At less than $400 US and just barely larger than my copy of Venables and Ripley, it has been real value. Eee PC 1000HA, 5 hour battery life (I've never used it long enough to run out of juice), 95% sized keyboard (a bit cramped), dual 1.6GHz atom processors, 140 Gbyte drive, 1 Gbyte ram, R, emacs, IDL, TeX/LaTeX, cygwin, python, openoffice, acrobat, msoffice. Plus, with external monitor, keyboard and mouse, it functions well as a full workstation for me at home. Mike __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
I'm having similar experiences on my Acer Aspire One. Everything will work good. Only thing that takes a lot of time is compiling R if you are in the habit of doing so. herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? Many thanks, Bernd __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
From: Michael A. Miller
Subject: Re: [R] R on netbooks et al?
Jim == Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au writes:
I've got R on my little EeePC as well. Great for most jobs
and I highly recommend a DC/DC convertor for plugging into
your car's cigarette lighter to get around the crap battery
problem.
I run R on my Eee PC as well - no problems there. At less than
$400 US and just barely larger than my copy of Venables and
Ripley, it has been real value. Eee PC 1000HA, 5 hour battery
life (I've never used it long enough to run out of juice), 95%
sized keyboard (a bit cramped), dual 1.6GHz atom processors, 140
Gbyte drive, 1 Gbyte ram, R, emacs, IDL, TeX/LaTeX, cygwin,
python, openoffice, acrobat, msoffice. Plus, with external
monitor, keyboard and mouse, it functions well as a full
workstation for me at home.
Mike
Are you sure that's dual atoms? AFAIK it has a single Atom N270 (single
core) at 1.6GHz. With hyper-threading, you may see two cpus.
My desktop at home has the Atom N330, the only dual-core Atom released
so far. It's fine for day-to-day use, but my old Athlon64 3200 runs
faster. I got the Atom for the low power (I keep it on 24/7).
Andy
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May I ask what is the OS? Thanks. 2009/3/5 Erik Iverson iver...@biostat.wisc.edu: I've installed Ubuntu, Emacs, and R on my Samsung NC10 with 2 GB RAM. I think the keyboard is very usable on the NC10, and it has about 5-7 hours of battery life, which is also nice. R runs just fine on it. I'd consider paying extra for the Samsung just for the keyboard. herrdittm...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Dear useRs, With the rise of netbooks and 'lifestyle laptops I am tempted to get one of these to mainly run R on it. Processor power and hard disk space seem to be ok. What I wonder is the handling and feel with respect to R. Has anyone here installed or is running R on one of these, and if so, what is your experience? Would it be more of a nice looking gadget than a feasable platform to do some stats on? Many thanks, Bernd __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- HUANG Ronggui, Wincent Tel: (00852) 3442 3832 PhD Candidate Dept of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong Home page and public schedule: http://asrr.r-forge.r-project.org/rghuang.html __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
