Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612112125160.26701@sobek.colorado.edu>
Date: 2006-12-12T04:40:45Z
From: LU YING
Subject: help on determining operating system
Dear list,
I am an R user and I also write my own package in R(sometime i need to
write in C), and right now i am thinking about buying a new
workstation--and i am trying to decide if i should get
a mac with OS X or a linux machine (for example Dell).
I have experience using R on linux (but i have been just a user and never
been a admin) but i am hesitating of managing a linux system on my own
(btw I would like to have my new workstation to be used as a server), so
right now I am leaning toward of buying a Mac Pro. But from the website,
it sounds like R doesnt work quite well with Mac operating system
yet...so I was wondering if anybody here have any experiences of
using/developing R package on a Mac machine? Is it smooth enough?
(oh by the way, i am not a Mac user yet, Windows has been the primary
operating system that i used, but after hearing many good things
of OS X, I am really interested in switching over.)
any suggestions are appreciated!
Ying
Ying Lu
Assistant Professor
Dept. Sociology
U-Colorado at Boulder