newbie mac question

Hi,

I got a Mac Book Air for Christmas but I'm just starting to work with it.

Oooh .. jealous :-)

I've never had a Mac of any kind before but have used Windows and Ubuntu.

Could you recommend any "baby Mac" references for me, please?

Don't really have one off the top of my head, does this help?

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

If you have more specific questions, I'd be happy to answer.

Also, if I download the R Mac binary, does it work like Windows, in the sense that I just click and install please?

Yes, you'll download a *.pkg file which you can open by double
clicking. I believe this will kick off the installer (or a new window
with the installer in it).

-steve

Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
?| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
?| Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact

Hi,

I got a Mac Book Air for Christmas but I'm just starting to work  
with it.

Oooh .. jealous :-)

You mean ***envious***! :-)

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

P. S.  My wife once asked me to explain to her the difference between
``jealous'' and ``envious''.  I said:

	Suppose that you and [for present purposes] Steve were walking
	down the street one day, engaged in conversation, and you happened
	to look up and see, on the corner, myself and (let us say) Angelina
	Jolie engaged in a hot, passionate embrace.  You, my love, would be
	jealous.  Steve would be envious.

		R.

The Pogue Missing Manual is good. As are the O'Reilly books. Some of them are more about the Unix under the hood; those are good if you don't have Unix experience, and others are more about the vagaries of Mac-dom. You sort of have to watch it, though--some are dated...

Kent

Dear R Mac People:

I got a Mac Book Air for Christmas but I'm just starting to work with it.

I've never had a Mac of any kind before but have used Windows and Ubuntu.

Could you recommend any "baby Mac" references for me, please?

Also, if I download the R Mac binary, does it work like Windows, in the sense that I just click and install please?

Thank you for your patience!

Sincerely,
Erin


Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu


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Hi,

I got a Mac Book Air for Christmas but I'm just starting to work with it.

Oooh .. jealous :-)

I've never had a Mac of any kind before but have used Windows and Ubuntu.

Could you recommend any "baby Mac" references for me, please?

Don't really have one off the top of my head, does this help?

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

If you have more specific questions, I'd be happy to answer.

Also, if I download the R Mac binary, does it work like Windows, in 
the sense that I just click and install please?

Yes, you'll download a *.pkg file which you can open by double
clicking. I believe this will kick off the installer (or a new window
with the installer in it).

But it is not all you need on a Mac.  You most likely will need (given 
you have been compiling packages and indeed R itself on other 
platforms)

- the matching Tcl/Tk from
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/
- the compilers by installing 'Xcode' (which comes on the system DVDs 
but is not installed, and can also be downloaded).
- gfortran from http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/

Some of these are .dmg rather than .pkg files, but install (in these 
examples) in a similar way.

I use a MacBook Air (late 2008, with SSD) as my laptop and have been 
very happy with it.  If you don't have the matching 'SuperDrive', you 
will find installing software frustrating (but it is possible to mount 
a DVD drive from a Windows box across a local network, modulo security 
issues, and it is also often possible to copy installation DVDs to a 
USB memory stick).

-steve

-- 
Steve Lianoglou

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