I am up and running on ubuntu. I have not had to compile anything, but If I did apt-get build-dep r-base and everything would work fine. Maybe I am understating this. You can add some repositories that are not the main ones to always have an up to date R on your system. hth,
Stephen On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Axel Urbiz <axel.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to move from Windows into a 64-bit Linux environment. Which is > the best Linux Flavor to use within R? To install R on this environment, do > I need to do any compiling? > > Thanks all! > > Axel. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis ______________________________________________ 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.