Hi - I don't want to ignite any holy wars, but for 10 years until last year I used Linux, I occasionally use a Windows machine at home, and last year switched to Mac OS. Of all the GUIs for R out there, the mac is the best by far IMHO. And R on my macbook is faster than on a pentium 4 3.2GHz running either linux or win xp.
Ken LU YING wrote: > Dear list, > > I am an R user and I also write my own package in R(sometime i need to > write in C), and right now i am thinking about buying a new > workstation--and i am trying to decide if i should get > a mac with OS X or a linux machine (for example Dell). > > I have experience using R on linux (but i have been just a user and never > been a admin) but i am hesitating of managing a linux system on my own > (btw I would like to have my new workstation to be used as a server), so > right now I am leaning toward of buying a Mac Pro. But from the website, > it sounds like R doesnt work quite well with Mac operating system > yet...so I was wondering if anybody here have any experiences of > using/developing R package on a Mac machine? Is it smooth enough? > > (oh by the way, i am not a Mac user yet, Windows has been the primary > operating system that i used, but after hearing many good things > of OS X, I am really interested in switching over.) > > any suggestions are appreciated! > > Ying > > > Ying Lu > Assistant Professor > Dept. Sociology > U-Colorado at Boulder > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Kenneth Benoit Associate Professor of Political Science Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin 2, Ireland http://benoit.tcd.ie Tel: 353-1-608-2491 Fax: 353-1-677-0546 ______________________________________________ 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.