[R] Installing R on Xandros 3.0

[Liaw, Andy]

Hi Mohamed,

> I certainly deffer to both you and Dirk on this ... my 
> suggestions were only
> ment to get an installation of R up and running on Xandros.  

If you are using Xandros, then your information is better than my
speculation.  If you were able to use install.packages(), you must have the
devel tools installed.

> Perhaps, either you or Dirk could comment on the following 
> for me ... when I
> tried the installation on Xandros using the method I 
> indicated, everything
> seemed to install.  But, when I tried running some R code I'd 
> written and
> run on WinXP it actually ran slower than on either WinXP or 
> on Quantian ...
> would this have something to do with the way I installed R?

Is the difference observed on the same machine?  If so, that sound very
peculiar, as the R installation on Quantian should be the same as the .deb
file you install from on Xandros...  If you can, please show us example code
and timings.

Andy