Re: [R] preferred version of Linux for R?

2008-04-08 Thread Simon Blomberg
There are binaries on CRAN for several distros. There is the R-sig-debian list for debian users. As far as I know, there are no mailing lists for other distros. This may indicate a preference for debian among R users. Or it may mean that debian is so difficult to use with R that it requires a

Re: [R] preferred version of Linux for R?

2008-04-08 Thread Mitchell Maltenfort
If your criterion is use of resources, then you might be more interested in which flavor of Linux makes it easy to turn the X-window server off. No windows or mouse, more RAM and CPU cycles for R. As I recall, the only Linux where that might be a problem is Ubuntu, because there's no convenient

Re: [R] preferred version of Linux for R?

2008-04-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 April 2008 at 19:06, Mitchell Maltenfort wrote: | If your criterion is use of resources, then you might be more | interested in which flavor of Linux makes it easy to turn the X-window | server off. No windows or mouse, more RAM and CPU cycles for R. As I | recall, the only Linux where