[R] Optimal platform for R

2006-03-09 Thread gwelleni
I'm looking to buy a new desktop which will primarily be used for analyses of large datasets (100s of MB). I've seen postings from several years back re the 'optimal' platform for running R, but nothing more recently. Specifically, I want to know: 1) if I run R under Windows, does having a dua

Re: [R] Optimal platform for R

2006-03-11 Thread gwelleni
> John Maindonald john.maindonald at anu.edu.au wrote > Sat Mar 11 01:53:31 CET 2006 > > I've found memory management sometimes problematic under Windows. > I've a calculation that runs without difficulty in 512MB under Mac OS X > (10.3 or 10.4); I'd expect the same under Linux. Under Windows > (