[R] Which Linux distribution?

[Douglas Bates]

Thomas Lumley <thomas at biostat.washington.edu> writes:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Eusebio Arenal Gutiérrez wrote:
> 
> > I'm an user of R for Windows (95/NT PENTIUM I and II) mostly for educational
> > purposes. I thinking of moving to Linux, is there any Linux distribution in
> > which R works better? or it would have to work fine in any Linux
> 
> It appears to work fine on all Linux distributions. We have reports of
> success on at least Caldera OpenLinux, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, and 
> LinuxPPC for the Macintosh. 

If you look on the CRAN sites, http://cran.r-project.org/ may be the
fastest for you, in the bin/linux directory, you will see that there
are precompiled versions of R for the Debian, LinuxPPC, RedHat and
SuSE distributions.  The packages make installation of R a lot easier
if you are using one of those distributions.

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