Which version should I use?

I have installed and used both. Jan's summary is pretty good.

I don't remember whether the jpeg graphics driver is available in the 
native (Iacus) version (and can't check right now); it definitely is 
in the X11 (de Leeuw) version. Both have the postscript() graphics 
driver functioning. I have not yet tried dynamic linking to code 
written in another language (eg, fortran or C) with either version; 
that's a potential major difference.

The native version works "out of the box" so to speak. You definitely 
will want to install some version of X-windows to use the X11 
version, so there is some extra work there. I don't think it matters 
which X11 you use (there are only two to choose from, as far as I 
know, and they're fairly comparable, in my opinion, having tried 
both).

Actually, both versions of R are pretty easy to install, so you 
shouldn't rule out trying them both yourself.

-Don

Apologies for the 0th-order question. 

I'm a longtime user of Splus, but I am switching (or trying, anyway) to
the Mac, and would like to take this opportunity to try R.  I'm mostly
hoping to _use_ R, not work on it, though I am of course happy to submit
bug reports and that sort of thing.

My immediate question is: should I use the Carbon/Iacus or the
Cocoa(?)/deLeeuw version?  Are there major functional differences?  Are
they similar in terms of stability?  Are there likely to be any
difficulties in set-up, or do they both "just work"; for the latter
question, does the specific species of X-windows matter?

Thanks in advance for answers, and thank you all for working on this
software.

--Phil Price
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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