On Tue, 27-May-2008 at 06:17AM -0700, DavidM.UK wrote:
|>
|> I don't think it's an issue with Linux functionality at all, it's a
|> case of having your linux machine configured correctly -- which
|> isn't a straight forward issue.
Since configuration has a direct bearing on functionality, we're
really saying the same thing. I don't fancy splitting that hair for
this discussion.
|>
|> On XP I load R and like you point out I'd do:
|> >install.packages("my package")
|> And great my library is installed and ready to use.
|>
|> Comparatively the number of times I've had that fail on Linux
|> systems is high. Of course that depends on what flavour of Linux
Right. The only time I had a problem was when the tgz file was not
unpacked correctly -- no reflection on the quality of the configuration
script. I've managed to get it all working on Fedora, CentOS and on
Mepis and I'm not particularly skilled in setting up Linux.
|> you have installed and more... but in fairness it's an indicator
|> that R is more difficult to install than some of it's commercial
|> competitors to install on Linux. For R, I can't honestly say I know
Software that doesn't have the flexibility that R has certainly can be
easy to set up. Even so, I'll never get Genstat to install on Linux.
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