R cross-platform compatibility--wow! - R-SIG-Mac

Wed, Apr 10, 2002 7:23 AM #

I am impressed!

I have R 1.4.1 installed on a remote Solaris system, and R 1.4.0 
installed on my desktop Macintosh running OS X.

I did some work using R on the Solaris system, i.e., read some data, 
wrote some functions to do things with the data, including x11 
graphics.

I mounted the Solaris directories where I did the work on my Mac 
using NFS. Running R 1.4.0 on my Mac in the mounted directories, 
using the data and functions created with R 1.4.1 on the Solaris box, 
works like a charm. No need to actually transfer the .RData files 
from one computer to the other.

Congratulations and thanks to the R core team and other contributors 
for this achievement.

-Don

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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA
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Ernesto Jardim

Wed, Apr 10, 2002 10:12 AM #

Hi

I usually work on the same .RData in windows and linux whithout any
problem, for a long time.

This is one of preferred features in R.

In my opinion R is one of the best examples in cross-platform
compatibility.

Best regards, thanks and keep the good work.

EJ

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:23, Don MacQueen wrote:

Brian Ripley

Thu, Apr 11, 2002 9:50 AM #

For the record, complete cross-platform compatibility is not guaranteed
until 1.5.0, although all known platforms support XDR (the last piece of
the jigsaw, which we supply in 1.5.0).

All platforms have been able to read files with all line endings (LF,
CRLF, even CR from a Mac) for a long time.

On 10 Apr 2002, Ernesto Jardim wrote:

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