[R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in maturity+stability?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 06/10/2009 6:36 AM, John Maindonald wrote:
> I had a large job time ago that ran fine under MacOS X.
> I'd expect the same to be true under Linux.  It would run
> under Windows XP only if XP had been freshly rebooted.

That sounds like you were running out of memory, or it was a bug.  Did 
you report it?

Duncan Murdoch

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> On 06/10/2009, at 9:00 PM, r-help-request at r-project.org wrote:
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>> From: Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com>
>> Date: 6 October 2009 6:46:33 PM AEDT
>> To: Robert Wilkins <iwritecode2 at gmail.com>
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] R on Linux, and R on Windows , any difference in  
>> maturity+stability?
>>
>>
>> On 10/6/09, Robert Wilkins <iwritecode2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Will R have more glitches on one operating system as opposed to
>>> another,
>>>
>> Probably not.
>>
>>> or is it pretty much the same?
>>>
>> Depending on the complexity of the code, it is pretty much the same. I
>> recently had a (relatively simple) group project, with the three of us
>> on different OSs: Win, Mac and Linux. We did not encounter one
>> platform specific issue.
>> Liviu
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