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R on Debian (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am thinking of moving to linux (Debian seemed to suite me) from Windows. I have used lubuntu and and ubuntu somewhat before, but their use has been very limited.

My main use would be to do statistical programming on R and Python. Does Debian have all the CRAN packages I can install on Windows? What about packages on Python? Does Debian suite me at all or should I look elsewhere?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would use Linux mint as its Ubuntu based and is user friendly. Python and R should both be in the repos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it does but it will be outdated and stable.

I recommend Fedora even though I have never used R personality. Another option is to use distrobox with podman in order to run any distro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fedora has a COPR containing all the R modules.

I personally run Rstudio + copr + modules through a distrobox container to keep my system clean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't Copr slow?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The website is, the repos idk no complaints really.