[R] running R on netbooks/minis?

[Erin Hodgess]

Thanks to everyone for their great advice!

Sincerely,
Erin


On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:13 PM, John C Frain <frainj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the basic eee pc 701 it I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix
> on an SD card.  This appears to work well.  The WiFi card was
> recognised and it was possible to install R, emacs and ess in the same
> way as with ordinary Ubuntu.  I dont expect to break any speed records
> but R emacs and openoffice do work. Updated Ubuntu is much more up to
> date al nd more flexible than the original Xandros.  Octave, Maxima
> and Gret also appear to work
>
> Best  Regards
>
> John
>
> 2009/5/3 Tobias Verbeke <tobias.verbeke at gmail.com>:
>> Zeljko Vrba wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:27:43AM -0500, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to run R on a netbook/mini, please?
>>>>>> There should be no reason not to be possible, if the notebook uses an
>>> OS that R supports.
>>
>> For the eeepc, e.g., documentation has been contributed on the R wiki
>>
>> http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:eeepc
>>
>> HTH,
>> Tobias
>>
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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
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