On Tuesday, 2008-09-16, Steve Revilak wrote: >> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:30:46 -0400 >> From: "stephen sefick" >> Subject: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R >> This is an operating system question, but it is with the intent of >> using R on that operating system. I have an ibook G4 Power PC that I >> am going to install linux on. Is there a better, worse, or perhaps >> easier (I am a linux newby migrating from mac) distribution that I >> should look at. I appreciate your help. I didn't post this in the >> sig-mac because I don't know if it fits there better than anywhere >> else. >> thanks > > I have an iBook G4 (1 GHz, 1.25 GB RAM) that's running Debian. > Debian's installer is pretty friendly. For me, the most difficult > part of the installation was getting 3-button mouse emulation to work > with the iBook's 1-button keypad. Beyond that, the installation and > setup was easy. > > Why did I install Debian on an iBook? Curiosity more than anything > else. I've worked with Redhat-based linux distibutions for years, and > I wanted to see what Debian was like. > > One thing you might want to keep in mind -- some of Debian's PPC > packages are a little on the old side (for example, R 2.4.0). That > may or may not be an issue for you. > > On Mac OS, you may want to try running R in an X11 xterm (as opposed > to running R.app); that's essentially what you'll see under Linux.. > > Steve >
I had R installed on a G3 iBook running Gentoo about a year ago (switched to a different hardware since then ;-)). And I don't remember any major issues. It required some patience to install (in Gentoo box applications are downloaded as a source code and compiled on the target machine), but as a plus one would have a rather recent version of the program... I'd recommend it. Gentoo -- as a system -- may require you to read some documentation to install and run it at first, but I think it's well worth it. Best, -- Wojciech Grzemski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "To Carthage then I came..." ______________________________________________ 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.
