I just recently purchased a Macbook Pro, Intel Core Duo 2GHz, 512 MB RAM.
After looking through several articles in this forum I found the link to the R Mac Wiki. I am not that tech-savy but it appeared to me that this link, http://wiki.urbanek.info/index.cgi?IntelMacR describes how to install R on a Intel Mac Core Duo to utilise the two cores. I have also downloaded and installed the universal binary from the CRAN website. My question now is whether the universal binary package already sets up R on my Mac in such a way that allows for the utilisation of the two cores or whether I have to go through the tutorial article of the R Wiki? I just ran some code that took about 8 hours on my old Windows machine (Pentium 3, 2.7 GHz, 1GB RAM) to complete on the Mac and it appears to be roughly 50% slower. That makes me wonder, of course, whether both cores are being utilised! Could someone please advice whether I should go through the Wiki article to set up R or whether it already had been set up properly through the universal binary package? Many thanks Tobias -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-set-up-R-for-Macbook-Pro-Intel-Core-Duo-tf2651081.html#a7398124 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
