R works very well with the Mac operating system, in my experience.
Packages with simple C should be easy; I have several packages of my
own that use Fortran, just one or two subroutines each, and I have no
difficulty building them.
I'm no expert, but as I understand it, Apple has done some
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
(or whether there is any reason to do so).
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Hi - I
, December 12, 2006 2:47 PM
To: Kenneth Benoit; LU YING
Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] help on determining operating system [Broadcast]
BTW, Mac OS sits on the Darwin unix system. So, you have all the
benefits of Mac and can access unix via the terminal (Steve Jobs is
brilliant). Things
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
On Tue 12 Dec 2006, at 06:40 , 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
