Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread Bert Gunter
project.org] On Behalf Of David M Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:57 AM To: Jose Quesada Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows ,any difference in maturity+stability? I wanted to correct a couple of misconceptions raised in Jose's post below,

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread David M Smith
I wanted to correct a couple of misconceptions raised in Jose's post below, which I'll take the liberty of addressing out of order. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: > While revolution has > provided very nice packages to the community (e.g., foreach), the win-64 port > as > of

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/6/2009 1:43 PM, David M Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: When running a 32 bit program, 64 bit Windows hides most of itself outside the address space visible to the program, so almost all of the 4 Gb address space is available to the user. But no more:

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread David M Smith
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > When running a 32 bit program, 64 bit Windows hides most of itself outside > the address space visible to the program, so almost all of the 4 Gb address > space is available to the user.  But no more: no matter how much RAM you > install, it

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/6/2009 1:17 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 10/6/2009 10:34 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: Robert Wilkins gmail.com> writes: Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to another, or is it pretty much the same? robert

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 10/6/2009 10:34 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: >> >> Robert Wilkins gmail.com> writes: >> >>> >>> Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to >>> another, or is it pretty much the same? >>> >>> robert >>> >>> >> >> One impor

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/6/2009 10:34 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: Robert Wilkins gmail.com> writes: Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to another, or is it pretty much the same? robert One important difference is that, if you are unsing large datasets and need memory, then windows is

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread Jose Quesada
Robert Wilkins gmail.com> writes: > > Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to > another, or is it pretty much the same? > > robert > > One important difference is that, if you are unsing large datasets and need memory, then windows is by far the worst. CRAN R is 32 b

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
berra ACT 0200. On 06/10/2009, at 9:00 PM, r-help-requ...@r-project.org wrote: From: Liviu Andronic Date: 6 October 2009 6:46:33 PM AEDT To: Robert Wilkins Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability? On 10/6/09, Robert Wilki

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread John Maindonald
To: Robert Wilkins > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in > maturity+stability? > > > On 10/6/09, Robert Wilkins wrote: >> Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to >> another, >&

Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/6/09, Robert Wilkins wrote: > Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to > another, > Probably not. > or is it pretty much the same? > Depending on the complexity of the code, it is pretty much the same. I recently had a (relatively simple) group project, with the thre

[R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

2009-10-05 Thread Robert Wilkins
Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to another, or is it pretty much the same? robert __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/po