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

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, 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.

Yes, indeed. However, this fact is of limited help when working on another 
operating system, which was the focus of the original question.

 	-thomas