Hi Sam. I have R 2.0.0, (haven't upgraded to 2.0.1 yet), on my Mac Powerbook 17" and it works like a complete champ. I've had no trouble whatsoever w/installing it, packages or the like. In fact, IMHO the good folks on the dev team for R have a bit more of a GUI for Mac than even for Windows, (def not trying to start a debate here.) Also, as an aside, I was prev running, FreeBSD 4.10 and could not install a few R packages due to the fact that I was running an older gcc compiler, (2.95 to be exact.) Since Mac's gcc is gcc 3.x, (3.2 I think), I've had no probs installing/compiling packages for R. So, from my POV, you really can't go wrong w/a Mac OSX product. I heartily recommend it as a user-friendly UNIX platform for R and related analytics.
If you've specific questions, reply back to me or the newsgroup. There is an open source package called Fink, (http://fink.sourceforge.net/), which you will find invaluable for installing some of the base software(s) that may be req for some R packages such as the gcc Fortran compiler. It's a snap to install sources using Fink and it does all the managing for you. Fink is the Mac analog of Debians "apt" package manager. Good luck and, should you choose to go with Mac I'm relatively confident you will not be disappointed. Thanks, Charles [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
