help on determining operating system

R works very well with the Mac operating system, in my experience.

Packages with simple C should be easy; I have several packages of my 
own that use Fortran, just one or two subroutines each, and I have no 
difficulty building them.

I'm no expert, but as I understand it, Apple has done some things on 
the unix side that are somewhat different than what you'll see on a 
typical Linux; if you try to work with what Apple has done, in the 
way that Apple has designed it to be used, you will have a lot to 
learn. But I've done just fine without it for my rather simple needs.

In my opinion, if you want to use mainstream desktop applications 
like Microsoft Office and also work in a unix-like environment, on 
the same computer, OS X is the way to go. You can run R in 
command-line mode at a unix prompt, as on Linux, or using the console 
app, similar to how it's done on Windows.

-Don

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