1 yr. ago • 80%

R on Debian

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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Debian (and most other distros) will have what you need, my lab runs Ubuntu and most of our statistics are in Python and R, except for the people who still use SPSS. What I tend to do is start up docker containers for them to access rstudio from a browser, but renv would be the other way to go if you want versioned packages. Either way, you’ll have the same access to the packages you need.

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- Thanks for the response. There really doesn't seem to be anything preventing me from moving now :D
  
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  Just do it!
  
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Yes it does but it will be outdated and stable.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

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- Fedora has a COPR containing all the R modules.
  
  I personally run Rstudio + copr + modules through a distrobox container to keep my system clean.
  
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  Isn't Copr slow?
  
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You could be interested in Pop!_OS, also. It is Ubuntu (and hence Debian) based.

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

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