[R] R and Debian Linux

[(Ted Harding)]

Thanks, Dirk and Christopher, for helpful comments about Debian.
I'll perhaps follow up some of the major points later, but
meanwhile a couple of minor comments:

On 02-Nov-07 03:14:34, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>| I've been to the CRAN section which deals with precompiled
>| Debian binaries:
>| 
>|  http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/debian/
>| 
>| When I follow the advice:
>| 
>|   "Simply add something like
>| 
>|  deb http://<favorite-cran-mirror>/bin/linux/debian stable/
> 
> Works for me. You did replace <favorite-cran-mirror> with something
> like cran.uk.r-project.org, right?

Oh yes I did!

>|   to the file /etc/apt/sources.list on your computer and
>|   install as usual."
>| [...]
>| [BTW, I'm trying these out as guests in virtual machines,
>| using virtualbox, which seems to me to run very well]
> 
> [ I heard there were some NAT/networking issues to go 'both ways'
> towards the hosted systems? ]

As I recall, I did encounter something of the sort, but worked
round it by choosing a bridged connection (i.e. choose "Host
Adaptor" rather than "NAT" in the Network dialogue box when
setting up the VM).

Best wishes,
Ted.

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