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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 3/19/07, Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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.

What was being discussed included:

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

and the subsequent discussion seemed to support that including
the suggestion that producing graphics on linux is just as good as
producing it on windows even if its intended to be transferred to
Microsoft Office on Windows but in fact there are a number of advantages
to doing it on Windows if you intend to use Microsoft Office there.