[R] Difference between R for the Mac and for Windows

[peter dalgaard]

File encodings differ when you move outside of standard ASCII code. Not really R's problem, but it is a fly in the ointment when teaching classes with mixed laptop armoury and there are also differences between classroom and desktop computers. RStudio does have features to switch encodings, but I usually sidestep the issue by commenting scripts in English.

-pd 

> On 31 Mar 2017, at 05:40 , Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> I can't remember having seen my students write code that runs correctly on one platform but not the other. Obviously under the hood there are significant differences, but as far as code goes, R seems quite foolproof. There are GUI differences in base R - but AFAIK no such differences in the RStudio IDE.
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>> On Mar 30, 2017, at 9:21 PM, Neil Salkind <neiljsalkind at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Can someone please direct me to an answer to the question as to how R differs for these two operating systems, if at all? Thanks - Neil 
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