Message-ID: <549FC1B2-5D52-4996-80BD-5A34A01D1EFC@r-project.org>
Date: 2006-11-10T16:42:37Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: Mac or Windows...?
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Carlos,
On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Carlos GUERRA wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I?m thinking about buying a MacBook Pro and I wanted to know if
> anyone can tell me what are the major changes, in ?R?, between a
> Mac, and a Windows.
>
The R itself is pretty much the same - the major differences are in
the OS (better support for virtual memory, 64-bit support, it's a
unix etc.) but not R (basically because we develop R primarily on
unix and use unix-based tools to create the Windows version). The GUI
for R is different on a Mac - it strives to be more intuitive to Mac
users, but I don't think there are many features you would miss (you
may rather find a couple of new ones). I suspect that R will be your
least problem when switching to Mac OS X ;).
And BTW if you really crave for Windows version of R you can actually
run it on a MacBook Pro in OS X even without installing Windows and
it works :)
[screenshot at:
http://rosuda.org/misc/iMacWin.png
the Mac GUI is in the background, the Windows GUI in the foreground]
Cheers,
Simon