[R] Hardware for a new Workstation for best performance using R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 3/19/07, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:43 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > On 3/19/07, Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andrew Perrin wrote: (in part)
> > > >
> > > > 2.) Yes, by all means you should use linux instead of windows. The
> > > > graphics output is completely compatible with whatever applications you
> > > > want to paste them into on Windows.
> > >
> > > This turns out not to be the case.
> > >
> > > It is not trivial to produce good graphics off Windows for adding to
> > > Microsoft Office documents (regrettably an important case for many
> > > people).  There has been much discussion of this on the R-sig-mac mailing
> > > list, for example, where PNG bitmaps (at sufficiently high resolution)
> > > seem to be the preferred method.
> >
> > On Windows one can produce metafile output directly from R.  This
> > is a Windows vector graphics format so it retains resolution under expansion
> > and shrinkage and it also works well with Microsoft Office.  This
> > would likely give
> > superior results (maximum resolution, more flexibility in post processing,
> > easier to do, interfaces better with Office) to using and transferring graphics
> > from another OS, particularly png which is only bit-mapped rather than
> > vector-based.
>
> Gabor,
>
> The problem is the the WMF/EMF formats are Windows specific, given the
> proprietary nature of the format.
>
> On non-Windows platforms (ie. Linux) which is what Thomas was referring

I don't think so.  The statement being quoted was:

   Yes, by all means you should use linux instead of windows