On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 06:28:57PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,
I've been learning R on both Fedora and Ubuntu.
I've noticed that Ubuntu has considerably greater support for R than
Fedora (more R deb packages than R rpm packages).
Is there a rationale for this?
I'm not sure about R in specific, but generally the rationale is "no
one did it". Are there particular packages that you're interested in?
ggplot2, tibble, tidyr dplyr. They seem to be popular and becoming more
integral to R.
As for the point about 435 on Ubuntu vs the ~140 on Fedora: I assume those
435 are reflective of popularity, frequency of usage, and maintenance. It
would be ridiculous to put all 6,000 CRAN packages into the Fedora eco
system.
But consider perl and the number of packages that have been rpm'd, even
though some are close to stale. The benefit of having a package is that it
is built with the whole distro in mind.
If you install packages local to a user, then they might not/probably are
not available to other users (but to engage in self argument: how many
other "users" have access to your own systems - desktop & laptop?)
Sure, there is little challenge to installing R packages using
install.packages("SomePackageName"); my concern is more for the sake of
consistency: if perl, python, php, etc., have their modules/function
libraries built for Fedora, why not R?
Curious, not kvetching,
MP
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