On 13 Dec 2004, at 19:53, doktora v wrote:
I'm looking to switch to Mac platform. Anyone had any experience with that? I'm expecting on a power G4 laptop later this week.... hope R behaves...
I have been a Linux user since 1999, and I got my first ever Mac (iBook G4 laptop) last December. There is just as little to comment on MacOS X as there is to comment on flavours of Linux distros: there is no large difference as regards to R. I still prefer emacs & ess as a shell (but you can get some kind of real emacs in Mac as well), but MacOS X/ R is more of an eye candy (though I find it really hard to get any real use for transparent windows in R: I still prefer to see what I type instead of looking the background through the text). As regards to R, it is just the same if you have any brand of Linux or MacOS X or even a fringe system like Windows. The differences are somewhere else than in R.
By the way, Ubuntu "GNU"/Linux works nicely in Mac, with blas who knows about the vector processor in G4.
cheers, jazza -- Jari Oksanen, Oulu, Finland
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