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help on determining operating system

Tue, Dec 12, 2006 11:46 AM

BTW, Mac OS sits on the Darwin unix system. So, you have all the
benefits of Mac and can access unix via the terminal (Steve Jobs is
brilliant). Things like emacs are waiting for you to use on the Mac. I
haven't explored whether one can install R on the Mac and use it via the
unix interface (or whether there is any reason to do so).

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Kenneth Benoit
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:39 PM
To: LU YING
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] help on determining operating system

Hi - I don't want to ignite any holy wars, but for 10 years 
until last year I used Linux, I occasionally use a Windows 
machine at home, and last year switched to Mac OS.  Of all 
the GUIs for R out there, the mac is the best by far IMHO.  
And R on my macbook is faster than on a pentium 4 3.2GHz 
running either linux or win xp.

Ken

LU YING wrote:

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

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