[R] R on Linux - a primer

[Mike Miller]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Jonathan Baron wrote:

> Just to make this thoroughly confusing, I will say that I am very happy 
> with Fedora


Just to make this less confusing: choose Ubuntu.  I say this because it is 
easy to use, has great repositories and it is the most popular Linux 
distro, so it should be easy to get help with it.  I have been running it 
on a number of machines doing a few different kinds of tasks and it has 
almost always been very easy to install.  I'm also happily running the 
Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a little Asus EeePC netbook.  To install R, just 
use the Synaptic program:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

It couldn't be easier.

I don't work for Ubuntu and I don't have any friends or relatives working 
there either.

Mike