[R] help on determining operating system

[Kenneth Benoit]

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
> 
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