[R] Moving to Mac OS X

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Victor Manuel Garcia Guerrero wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been using R on Windows for a long time, but now I am ready  
> to move to Mac OS X, but I was just wondering if R works better on  
> Mac than on Windows. This is because I had some memory size issues  
> in the past.

64bit R (from http://r.research.att.com/) works great on 64 bit macs  
w/ OS X ... my R sessions have chewed up all of the 8gb of ram on my  
cpu that were available if need be (and choked the rest of my system).

> Another question is if some of you know an R editor for Mac (just  
> like Tinn-R).

I'm not sure that there's a consensus. Here's a very recent thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/161063/focus=161335

All the usual players:

  * Emacs w/ ESS
  * JGR
  * Eclipse + StatET plugin
  * I understand people are excited about an R plugin for jEdit that  
this guy is working on: http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr/

I use TextMate .. there's an R.bundle for it which I don't really use  
aside from its syntax highlighting, though it does more (like sending  
commands to (some) R process). Works great w/ LaTeX+Sweave, too.  It  
seems that's all I really need as I spend most of my time in the  
terminal then sourcing some file that has the functions I'm trying to  
refine anyway ...

-steve

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