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
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