running R on netbooks/minis?
Thanks to everyone for their great advice! Sincerely, Erin
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:13 PM, John C Frain <frainj at gmail.com> wrote:
On the basic eee pc 701 it I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix on an SD card. ?This appears to work well. ?The WiFi card was recognised and it was possible to install R, emacs and ess in the same way as with ordinary Ubuntu. ?I dont expect to break any speed records but R emacs and openoffice do work. Updated Ubuntu is much more up to date al nd more flexible than the original Xandros. ?Octave, Maxima and Gret also appear to work Best ?Regards John 2009/5/3 Tobias Verbeke <tobias.verbeke at gmail.com>:
Zeljko Vrba wrote:
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:27:43AM -0500, Erin Hodgess wrote:
Is it possible to run R on a netbook/mini, please?
There should be no reason not to be possible, if the notebook uses an
OS that R supports.
For the eeepc, e.g., documentation has been contributed on the R wiki http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:eeepc HTH, Tobias
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