Another vote for Mint (I'm using Mint 11 on the desktop, 10 on the 
laptop).. ubuntu derivative with R 2.13.1, Rstudio (desktop/web) with no 
problems. I specified the apt deb location to my local CRAN server.

-c

On 07/18/2011 12:55 PM, BooBoo wrote:
>
> You can point mint update at the debian testing repository if you want 
> a true rolling update (and know how to fix things when they break) or 
> at the mint repositories if you want the Mint folks to gather up and 
> test out things for a month before they pass the updates on to you. 
> The Mint debian experience is about the same as Ubuntu 10.10 - you can 
> do real work if you want or just fool around. I think it is a great 
> platform for using R and RStudio/StatET.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> On 7/18/2011 1:09 PM, denis brion wrote:
>> According to
>> http://landorsplace.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/weekend-wrap-up/,
>> Mint LMDE can be seen as a real debian , but with a ca-one month lag 
>> (__if__
>> everything is OK, and __if__ they keep their choices). They add more 
>> user
>> friendly (at least they claim) installers and interfaces, which are 
>> not likely
>> to interfere with R or its dependencies, and non-free drivers (which 
>> ere not
>> likely...) .... Their intended audience is likely to be beginners 
>> (but, as R is
>> more difficult than bash scripting and OS installing, is Mint -rather 
>> meant for
>> video/music playing, without too many efforts- necessary?).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Message d'origine ----
>> De : BooBoo<booboo@gforcecable.com>
>> À : Dirk Eddelbuettel<edd@debian.org>
>> Cc : r-sig-debian@r-project.org
>> Envoyé le : Mer 13 juillet 2011, 18h 47min 54s
>> Objet : Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.13.1 on Debian Systems?
>>
>> On 7/13/2011 12:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>> On 13 July 2011 at 18:17, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta  wrote:
>>> | Hello,
>>> |
>>> | You can check at
>>> | http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/squeeze-cran/ that it has
>>> | not.
>>>
>>> You can check the Debian 'package page' here:
>>>
>>>      http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/r-base.html
>>>
>>> R 2.13.1 was uploaded to Debian unstable the morning of its release.
>>>
>>> What is available on CRAN is a supplementary service which (for 
>>> Debian) is
>>> provided by Johannes as explained in the README there.0
>>>
>>> | 2011/7/13 BooBoo<booboo@gforcecable.com>:
>>> |>   I am running 32-bit and a 64-bit Linux Mint Debian systems and 
>>> the latest
>> R
>>> |>   has not yet appeared whereas it has on a Xubuntu box. Is the 
>>> Debian update
>>> |>   out yet?
>>>
>>> So why are you asking about Debian when you are running Mint.  Are 
>>> you mixing
>>> binaries from different distribution?
>>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
>> I don't know much, but I know not to mix binaries from different
>> distributions. I am using Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), which is a
>> very nice distribution that is real Debian AFAIK. I have synaptic
>> pointed at the UC Berkeley mirror, which does not appear to have 
>> 2.13.1 yet.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> R-SIG-Debian mailing list
>> R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Debian mailing list
> R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

