--- "Rau, Roland" <Rau at demogr.mpg.de> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: r-help On Behalf Of bogdan romocea Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:49 PM I would suggest that you consider another GNU/Linux distribution,
I don't think it is necessary. Mandrake 10.1 is fine for running R.[1] I have Mandrake 10.1 (Community) at home running on my notebook and I was able to compile R without any problems - just using the software that was shipped with this distribution.
It is certainly not necessary; even Windows is fine for running R. However, assuming R is not the only package to be installed and then upgraded, switching from something like Mandrake to something like Mepis may result in significant time savings, which is what I care about most. (Your mileage may vary.) I used Mdk for a couple of years and prefer to not remember how many hours I wasted on something as trivial as installing and upgrading packages. (Compilation will not save you always from having to manually upgrade other libraries, especially as your Mdk installation gets older.)