[R] Performance Difference? Windows vs. Linux

[Brigid Mooney]

I'm not trying to start a Windows vs. Linux debate, but I've been
using R on a Windows machine for a while, and was recently wondering
if R's performance would be faster on a Linux machine.  And similarly,
if any incremental increase in processing speed would be worth the
time it would take me to migrate my entire system to Linux (including
a database that I access via an R package.)

I don't know how much it matters what R is doing - but I've got R
pulling a large amount data from a database, performing many complex
computations on that data, and then writing output data to a database.

Thanks so much for the input,
Brigid