[R] recommended linux environment for R

Ramon Diaz-Uriarte rdiazuri at students.wisc.edu
Wed Jul 5 09:08:10 CEST 2000


I am no expert in this, so I'll just talk from my little experience. I think
you should find no problems with any of the three distributions you list.  I
started running R with Red Hat in my box without problems.  Next I switched to
SuSE (about 7 months ago) because of some development tools (e.g., ddd), and a
variety of other programs that I use, that come "pre-packaged" in SuSE. I've
been happily running R (and compiling from sources) using SuSE without any
trouble. And I am now thinking about switching to Debian (because it is a free
distribution).

I think that use of R per se will probably not allow you to decide between the
three distributions you list, and you'll need some other criteria.


Ramon





On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Jens Oehlschlägel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to ask whether there is a prefered linux distribution for use with
> R (Suse, Redhat, Debian) and what fortran compiler is recommended (f77 or
> f2c)?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
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