[R] New installation

[Leonardo Fontenelle]

Em Sex 10 jun. 2016, às 03:58, Rainer M Krug escreveu:
> Clint Bowman <clint em ecy.wa.gov> writes:
> 
> I am really wondering, why nobody mentioned Ubuntu so far?
> 
> Ubuntu is a really nice distro, I never had problems with it, many
> programs are available for Ubuntu, and it is build on Debian
> (stable). Don't worry about Unity Window manager - there are many other
> options available (Xubuntu being one of the better known ones - Ubuntu
> just packed with a different Windows Manager).
> 
> If you are new to Linux, I would really suggest Ubuntu.

I believe any major Linux distribution will provide decent support for
R, and I agree there are plenty of reasons for preferring Ubuntu or
other Linux distributions over Arch Linux. The reason why I suggested
Arch Linux was how up to date the package is, because that was the
motivation of the original post.

R 3.3.0 was released by the R Core Team on 2016-05-03, and on 2016-05-04
it was available in Arch Linux's "testing" repository. On 2016-05-17,
after at least one week with no (packaging) bug reports, the package was
moved to the "extra". This is the usual rhythm. Don't be fooled by the
repository name, it is the repository for popular software like Firefox,
GNOME and LibreOffice, and it is maintained by official Arch Linux
developers / package maintainers. 

Hope that helps,

Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle