Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-14 Thread Ulises M. Alvarez
Again, I have to tell...

Take a look at Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

When I get tired of MAC OSX, I installed the ppc version of Ubuntu on my
IBook. It's great and it's based on Debian. 


On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:35 -0500, doktora v wrote:
 I'm using SUSE with success on intel laptop and AMD desktop. You get
 the best of both worlds: rpm and source. I can easily get the rpm
 packages i need, and compile on my own the things that i can spend
 time on (such as R 2.0.1 -- compiles out of the box on suse).
 
 BTW, I'm looking to switch to Mac platform. Anyone had any experience
 with that? I'm expecting on a power G4 laptop later this week hope
 R behaves...
 
 -- doktora
 
 
 On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:05:54 -0800 (PST), bogdan romocea
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Before choosing a GNU/Linux distribution look into the package
  management issue.
  http://distrowatch.com/
  I would suggest that you avoid all RPM-based distributions (Mandrake,
  Fedora, SuSE), and consider Debian (+ those based on it)  the
  source-based distributions (such as Gentoo). I've been using Mandrake
  for a couple of years but got tired of RPM.
  
  HTH,
  b.
  
  
  -Original Message-
  From: Thomas W Volscho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:24 PM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?
  
  Dear List,
  I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I
  am trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for
  using R 2.0.1?
  
  Thank you in advance for your input,
  Tom Volscho
  
  
  Thomas W. Volscho
  Graduate Student
  Dept. of Sociology U-2068
  University of Connecticut
  Storrs, CT 06269
  Phone: (860) 486-3882
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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-14 Thread Ulises M. Alvarez
A little bit late, but I have to tell...

Take a look at Ubuntu

http://www.ubuntulinux.org

Is both comfortable to install and maintain; plus easy to expand.

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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Yuandan Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I have both desktop and laptop with Fedora core 3. R 2.0.1 are working well 
 on all PCs. 
 
 There is a problem with Fedora core 3 on HP nx500 laptop. The display 
 resolution is 1024x768 according to HP's description. However, during the 
 installation, there were only two options on display resolution 800x600 
 640x480.
 
 I tried various ways, but can't set it to 1024x768. any one have fix for this.

You may want to set the bits per pixel first (you can reconfigure the
screen via the control panel as far as I recall). Anyways, this works
fine on other laptops, and is not at all R related, so you should
probably ask elsewhere...

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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Thomas Schnhoff
Hello,
Thomas W Volscho schrieb:
Dear List,
I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I am trying 
Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for using R 2.0.1?
R is developed on Linux, so there shouldn't be too much restrictions 
on whatever distri you're going to use!
If running a new shiny Desktop you might consider other aspects than 
using R, which should run with every Linux distribution.
If you're looking for something comfortable to install and maintain 
you might give Quatian a try 
(http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html). This is a somewhat 
modified Knoppix trimmed to statistical analysis (not entirely, though)

regards
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RE: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread bogdan romocea
Before choosing a GNU/Linux distribution look into the package
management issue. 
http://distrowatch.com/
I would suggest that you avoid all RPM-based distributions (Mandrake,
Fedora, SuSE), and consider Debian (+ those based on it)  the
source-based distributions (such as Gentoo). I've been using Mandrake
for a couple of years but got tired of RPM. 

HTH,
b.


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From: Thomas W Volscho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?


Dear List,
I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I
am trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for
using R 2.0.1?

Thank you in advance for your input,
Tom Volscho


Thomas W. Volscho
Graduate Student
Dept. of Sociology U-2068
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: (860) 486-3882
http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv1

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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread doktora v
I'm using SUSE with success on intel laptop and AMD desktop. You get
the best of both worlds: rpm and source. I can easily get the rpm
packages i need, and compile on my own the things that i can spend
time on (such as R 2.0.1 -- compiles out of the box on suse).

BTW, I'm looking to switch to Mac platform. Anyone had any experience
with that? I'm expecting on a power G4 laptop later this week hope
R behaves...

-- doktora


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:05:54 -0800 (PST), bogdan romocea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Before choosing a GNU/Linux distribution look into the package
 management issue.
 http://distrowatch.com/
 I would suggest that you avoid all RPM-based distributions (Mandrake,
 Fedora, SuSE), and consider Debian (+ those based on it)  the
 source-based distributions (such as Gentoo). I've been using Mandrake
 for a couple of years but got tired of RPM.
 
 HTH,
 b.
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Thomas W Volscho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:24 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?
 
 Dear List,
 I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I
 am trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for
 using R 2.0.1?
 
 Thank you in advance for your input,
 Tom Volscho
 
 
 Thomas W. Volscho
 Graduate Student
 Dept. of Sociology U-2068
 University of Connecticut
 Storrs, CT 06269
 Phone: (860) 486-3882
 http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv1
 
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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Jonathan Baron
Fedora uses yum as well as rpm.  I haven't installed an RPM in
months, except for R.  Yum is great.

Jon
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Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread apjaworski





The newest production release of Fedora is Core 3.  I would use this one
if I were you.

Andy

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Hello,

Thomas W Volscho schrieb:
 Dear List,
 I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I am
trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for using R
2.0.1?

R is developed on Linux, so there shouldn't be too much restrictions
on whatever distri you're going to use!
If running a new shiny Desktop you might consider other aspects than
using R, which should run with every Linux distribution.
If you're looking for something comfortable to install and maintain
you might give Quatian a try
(http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html). This is a somewhat
modified Knoppix trimmed to statistical analysis (not entirely, though)


regards

Thomas

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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Mike Meyer
You have installed RPM's, just under the covers.  YUM is just a smart front-end 
to installing rpms.  Regards, --Mike


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:52:58 -0500
Jonathan Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Fedora uses yum as well as rpm.  I haven't installed an RPM in
 months, except for R.  Yum is great.
 
 Jon
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 R search page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/
 
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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Jonathan Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Fedora uses yum as well as rpm.  I haven't installed an RPM in
 months, except for R.  Yum is great.

Actually, Martyn set up CRAN as a yum repository. I have

$ more /etc/yum.repos.d/R.repo
[R]
name=CRAN Fedora $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/fc$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

whereafter I could just say yum install R, and in due course I
presume yum update R.

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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Siegfried Gonzi
doktora v wrote:
I'm using SUSE with success on intel laptop and AMD desktop. You get
the best of both worlds: rpm and source. I can easily get the rpm
packages i need, and compile on my own the things that i can spend
time on (such as R 2.0.1 -- compiles out of the box on suse).
BTW, I'm looking to switch to Mac platform. Anyone had any experience
with that? I'm expecting on a power G4 laptop later this week hope
R behaves...
Hello:
There is one issue about SuSE Linux: The Professional version and the 
Standard distribution. The professional version cost a tad more.

The advantage of the professional version: you get always the header 
files too in some cases. I once had SuSE Linux 8 on my old Celeron 
laptop. At that time I tried to install Numerics on Python. But with 
no avail because the Standard SuSE distribution lacks some additional 
header files and you get always the bare minimum only.

That said: the normal SuSE distribution will always let you aft-install 
all the things you need.

Regards,
S. Gonzi
PS: I hope I am not saying somthing outragiuous wrong now: but there 
exists a free Fortran 95 compiler from INTEL for Linux. As far as I know 
it is the one and only free Fortran 95 compiler out there (okay gnu g95 
is on its way). However, it is hard to get INTEL Fortran 95 running on 
Debian Linux a colleague told me. I for myslef can only say that I had 
had no problems in installing Fortran 95 from INTEL on SuSE.

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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Martyn Plummer
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 23:59 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
 Jonathan Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  Fedora uses yum as well as rpm.  I haven't installed an RPM in
  months, except for R.  Yum is great.
 
 Actually, Martyn set up CRAN as a yum repository. I have
 
 $ more /etc/yum.repos.d/R.repo
 [R]
 name=CRAN Fedora $releasever - $basearch
 baseurl=http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/fc$releasever/$basearch/
 enabled=1
 gpgcheck=1
 
 whereafter I could just say yum install R, and in due course I
 presume yum update R.

You can also configure up2date - the slightly annoying pulsating red
icon on the panel - to get automatic notification of updates from CRAN.
Instructions are in the ReadMe file in the same directory as the Fedora
Core 3 RPMS.

Martyn

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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-13 Thread Hu Chen
haha
debian vs rpm again... everywhere..

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:30:07 +0100, Siegfried Gonzi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 doktora v wrote:
 
 I'm using SUSE with success on intel laptop and AMD desktop. You get
 the best of both worlds: rpm and source. I can easily get the rpm
 packages i need, and compile on my own the things that i can spend
 time on (such as R 2.0.1 -- compiles out of the box on suse).
 
 BTW, I'm looking to switch to Mac platform. Anyone had any experience
 with that? I'm expecting on a power G4 laptop later this week hope
 R behaves...
 
 
 Hello:
 
 There is one issue about SuSE Linux: The Professional version and the
 Standard distribution. The professional version cost a tad more.
 
 The advantage of the professional version: you get always the header
 files too in some cases. I once had SuSE Linux 8 on my old Celeron
 laptop. At that time I tried to install Numerics on Python. But with
 no avail because the Standard SuSE distribution lacks some additional
 header files and you get always the bare minimum only.
 
 That said: the normal SuSE distribution will always let you aft-install
 all the things you need.
 
 Regards,
 S. Gonzi
 PS: I hope I am not saying somthing outragiuous wrong now: but there
 exists a free Fortran 95 compiler from INTEL for Linux. As far as I know
 it is the one and only free Fortran 95 compiler out there (okay gnu g95
 is on its way). However, it is hard to get INTEL Fortran 95 running on
 Debian Linux a colleague told me. I for myslef can only say that I had
 had no problems in installing Fortran 95 from INTEL on SuSE.
 
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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-12 Thread Juan Antonio Caballero
El dom, 12-12-2004 a las 15:23 -0500, Thomas W Volscho escribió:
 Dear List,
 I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I am trying 
 Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for using R 2.0.1?
 
 Thank you in advance for your input,
 Tom Volscho
 
I used R in the susseccive Fedora Core release (at the moment I use R
2.0.0 + FC3) with satisfaction.
best,
Juan Antonio  



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RE: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-12 Thread Mohamed Abdolell
Have you tried Qunatian?  http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html

Not only does it have R 2.0.1, but it's got a whole bunch of other programs
already installed, including emacs, TeX, kile, and many more apps.

It's debian and based on clusterKnoppix.

You can run it live or install it to hard drive.

- Mohamed


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Subject: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?


Dear List,
I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I am
trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for using R
2.0.1?

Thank you in advance for your input,
Tom Volscho


Thomas W. Volscho
Graduate Student
Dept. of Sociology U-2068
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: (860) 486-3882
http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv1

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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-12 Thread Yuandan Zhang

I have both desktop and laptop with Fedora core 3. R 2.0.1 are working well on 
all PCs. 

There is a problem with Fedora core 3 on HP nx500 laptop. The display 
resolution is 1024x768 according to HP's description. However, during the 
installation, there were only two options on display resolution 800x600 
640x480.

I tried various ways, but can't set it to 1024x768. any one have fix for this.

Yuandan


On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:23:40 -0500
Thomas W Volscho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dear List,
 I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I am trying 
 Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for using R 2.0.1?
 
 Thank you in advance for your input,
 Tom Volscho
 
 
 Thomas W. Volscho
 Graduate Student
 Dept. of Sociology U-2068
 University of Connecticut
 Storrs, CT 06269
 Phone: (860) 486-3882
 http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv1
 
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Re: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

2004-12-12 Thread lederer
Hi,

recently, i installed Gentoo in addition to SuSE on my Laptop.
In order to see whether it was worth the effort, i did a small
benchmark for R under SuSE and Gentoo.
I guess, that the benchmarks under SuSE are also approximately
valid for other binary distributions.

As a consequence, depending on your Unix/Linux experience,
i would recommend Gentoo for optimal performance.
If you are new to Linux and want to avoid the relatively complicated
Gentoo setup, i recommend that you should least compile R from source,
which should be easy also for a Linux newbie.

The benchmark (see below for the script) consisted of
i) Generating random normals and plotting density plots.
ii) Cox model
iii) Inverting random 200x200 matrices.

I used different versions of R, since 2.0.1 is not yet included in the
Gentoo portage tree. Here are my results:

A) SuSE 9.2, R 2.0.1 (from i586 rpm):
 benchmark cpu.user cpu.system
1benchmark.density   222.22   6.76
11  benchmark.survival   133.69   0.27
12 benchmark.linearalgebra   365.25   3.64

B) R 1.9.0 compiled under SuSE 9.2, without additional CFLAGS
(i.e. using CFLAGS from the configure script):
 benchmark cpu.user cpu.system
1benchmark.density   217.31   6.12
11  benchmark.survival   101.77   0.14
12 benchmark.linearalgebra   165.49   3.34

C) R 1.9.0 compiled under SuSE 9.2, using the same CFLAGS
as in Gentoo (see below for my CFLAGS):
 benchmark cpu.user cpu.system
1benchmark.density   199.16   5.96
11  benchmark.survival94.26   0.15
12 benchmark.linearalgebra   159.17   4.93

D) R 1.9.0-r1 under Gentoo, using the CFLAGS for the whole system,
not just for R.
 benchmark cpu.user cpu.system
1benchmark.density   176.08   6.10
11  benchmark.survival84.20   0.14
12 benchmark.linearalgebra   134.72   6.54

My CFLAGS (for a centrino) are:
CFLAGS=-pipe -O3 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387
-maccumulate-outgoing-args -mno-align-stringops -fomit-frame-pointer
-ffast-math -fsched-spec-load -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer
-fmove-all-movables

Question to the Gurus: Would it be allowed, to use
-funsafe-math-optimizations?


Here is my benchmark script:

--
require(survival)

benchmark.density - function()
{
for (i in 1:1000)
{
x - rnorm(10)
plot(density(x), type=l, xlim=c(-10,10), main=i)
}
}

benchmark.survival - function()
{
for (i in 1:1000)
{
time - c(rexp(800, 1), rexp(800, 0.8), rexp(800, 0.9),
  rexp(800, 0.7), rexp(800, 0.5))
time - round(time, digits=2)  # introduce ties
event - as.integer(time = 1)
time[time  1] - 1
group - c(rep(0, 800), rep(1, 800), rep(2, 800),
   rep(3, 800), rep(4, 800))
plot(survfit(Surv(time,event) ~ group), xlim=c(0,1))
title(main=i)
dummy - coxph(Surv(time,event) ~ group)
}
}


benchmark.linearalgebra - function()
{
for (i in 1:1000)
{
A - matrix(rnorm(200*200), nrow=200, ncol=200)
AI - solve(A)
residual - A %*% AI - diag(1, 200)
hist(residual, main=i)
}
}


my.benchmark - function(func)
{
   funcname - (as.character(sys.call()[[2]]))
   cat(funcname, \n)
   times - system.time(func())
   return(data.frame(benchmark=funcname,
 cpu.user=times[1],
 cpu.system=times[2]))
}

result - my.benchmark(benchmark.density)
result - rbind(result, my.benchmark(benchmark.survival))
result - rbind(result, my.benchmark(benchmark.linearalgebra))

sink(benchmark.out)
cat(Sys.info(), \n)
print(result)
sink()
--

Christian


 Dear List,
 I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I am
 trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for using R
 2.0.1?

 Thank you in advance for your input,
 Tom Volscho

 
 Thomas W. Volscho
 Graduate Student
 Dept. of Sociology U-2068
 University of Connecticut
 Storrs, CT 06269
 Phone: (860) 486-3882
 http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv1

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