
Hi Sam.  I have R 2.0.0, (haven't upgraded to 2.0.1 yet), on my Mac
Powerbook 17" and it works like a complete champ.  I've had no trouble
whatsoever w/installing it, packages or the like.  In fact, IMHO the good
folks on the dev team for R have a bit more of a GUI for Mac than even for
Windows, (def not trying to start a debate here.)  Also, as an aside, I was
prev running, FreeBSD 4.10 and could not install a few R packages due to the
fact that I was running an older gcc compiler, (2.95 to be exact.)  Since
Mac's gcc is gcc 3.x, (3.2 I think), I've had no probs installing/compiling
packages for R.  So, from my POV, you really can't go wrong w/a Mac OSX
product.  I heartily recommend it as a user-friendly UNIX platform for R and
related analytics.

If you've specific questions, reply back to me or the newsgroup.  There is
an open source package called Fink, (http://fink.sourceforge.net/), which
you will find invaluable for installing some of the base software(s) that
may be req for some R packages such as the gcc Fortran compiler.  It's a
snap to install sources using Fink and it does all the managing for you.
Fink is the Mac analog of Debians "apt" package manager.

Good luck and, should you choose to go with Mac I'm relatively confident you
will not be disappointed.


Thanks,
Charles

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