Linux based programs

Dear Grant, Gabor and Patrick,

Thanks so much for your comments.

I am actually not a developer but a student in quantitative finance. I am
entering the R world to get one more tool to communicate with more people.
Also, it might help me to replicate those procedures in some interesting
academic paper using R language.

So I guess I will start learning R from a windows version, and further
switch to the Linux version if necessary.

One more question, is it ok to install R in Vista Professional, which has
been pre-installed on my laptop? Is there is any compatibility issue or
annoying bugs?

Again, thank you.


Best,
Yuguang


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Patrick Burns <patrick at burns-stat.com>wrote:

There have been other answers, this one is meant
to complement them.

R is remarkably similar under all platforms.  In
particular I routinely move files of R objects created
with 'save' between platforms.


Patrick Burns
patrick at burns-stat.com
+44 (0)20 8525 0696
http://www.burns-stat.com
(home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")

Yuguang Zhou wrote:

Dear all,

I was also wondering is there any advantage using R on Linux vs. Windows?

One friend told me that I might pick up the use of R on Linux, since some
financial firms are using R in that platform. But what I want to know is,
in
terms of learning language, what is the difference b/t doing in tow
platforms?

Thanks very much!


Best,
Yuguang

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:24 AM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, malcolm croucher wrote:

 I wondering if anyone could recommened some linux based programmes for

finance ? i.e programmes that you can develop code for in c++ ? which
allow
real time data feeds connection to databases ?

 http://www.trading-shim.org/

and in the FAQ, the 'Other Voices' page collects many more, suitable for
Free and Open Source operating systems.

-- Russ herrold

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