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

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Along the lines you mention, check out:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/32297.html

On 3/19/07, Dalphin, Mark <mdalphin at amgen.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Thomas Lumley 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
>
> One solution which has not been covered here is to use both operating
> systems. For example, I need to present in Powerpoint, yet my work is
> done under Linux where I have substantially more RAM and CPU
> power. Typically, I'll run my analysis under Linux and then take
> advantage of the binary compatibility of the .RData file and move my
> final values from Linux to Windows via Samba; I may delete large
> intermediate results before the transfer to compendate for my lack of
> RAM under Windows.  Some small scripts which may have been developed
> under Linux are used to create the plots which are placed in my
> Powerpoint presentations. By an large, the plots developed under Linux
> drop right into the Windows presentations, although there are
> occasional font size difficulties that require adjustments.
>
> Mark Dalphin
>
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> Mark Dalphin
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> Amgen, Inc.
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