[R] Number of package in Ubuntu

Dear Experts , I am using R with Spark on Windows and now there is a need to move to Ubuntu. I wanted to know if most of the packages that are available on windows , would they be available on Ubuntu/Linux? If not can I compile the source code of those package ? Has any one of you used the pack

[R] Is it possible to run factor analysis on categorical data.

Dear Rexperts, I tried running factanal on a group and variables ( all categorical datas ) and I learnt that's not possible , at least by using factanal. Can I use FactoMineR for MFA ? Does it do the same thing as factor analysis. Thanks in advance for the help, Harmeet