For those who don't follow Ubuntu development carefully, the first Beta for the next Ubuntu was recently released, so I took my home system and upgraded to help out with filing bugs, etc.
Just to be clear, I am not looking for help with the upgrade process. I've had R, and a few miscellaneous CRAN packages installed on this computer for years. Today, when I loaded an R session I had developed before the upgrade, I saw something new in my R "welcome message". > >R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) >Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing >ISBN 3-900051-07-0 > >R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. >You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. >Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. > >R is a collaborative project with many contributors. >Type 'contributors()' for more information and >'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. > > >This is REvolution R version 3.0.0: >the optimized distribution of R from REvolution Computing. >REvolution R enhancements Copyright (C) REvolution Computing, Inc. > >Checking for REvolution MKL: >- REvolution R enhancements not installed. >For improved performance and other extensions: apt-get install revolution-r The last part, about this being the "enhanced" version of R was . . . unexpected. I have heard of this company before and now I've spent some time on their website. Looking at my installation, Ubuntu did not install any of the REvolution Computing components, although R now basically thows a warning every time I start it. My question(s) for the community is this (pick any question(s) you like to answer: Should I install the REvolution Computing packages? Do these packages really make R faster? Are these packages stable? What are your experiences with REvolution Computing software? I am interested in hearing from members of the community, REvolution Computing employees/supporters (although please ID yourself as such) and most anyone else. I can see what they say on their website, but I'm interested in getting other opinions too. Thanks! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.