Dear Grant, Gabor and Patrick,

Thanks so much for your comments.

I am actually not a developer but a student in quantitative finance. I am
entering the R world to get one more tool to communicate with more people.
Also, it might help me to replicate those procedures in some interesting
academic paper using R language.

So I guess I will start learning R from a windows version, and further
switch to the Linux version if necessary.

One more question, is it ok to install R in Vista Professional, which has
been pre-installed on my laptop? Is there is any compatibility issue or
annoying bugs?

Again, thank you.


Best,
Yuguang


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Patrick Burns <patrick@burns-stat.com>wrote:

> There have been other answers, this one is meant
> to complement them.
>
> R is remarkably similar under all platforms.  In
> particular I routinely move files of R objects created
> with 'save' between platforms.
>
>
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>
> Yuguang Zhou wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I was also wondering is there any advantage using R on Linux vs. Windows?
>>
>> One friend told me that I might pick up the use of R on Linux, since some
>> financial firms are using R in that platform. But what I want to know is,
>> in
>> terms of learning language, what is the difference b/t doing in tow
>> platforms?
>>
>> Thanks very much!
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Yuguang
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:24 AM, R P Herrold <herrold@owlriver.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, malcolm croucher wrote:
>>>
>>>  I wondering if anyone could recommened some linux based programmes for
>>>
>>>
>>>> finance ? i.e programmes that you can develop code for in c++ ? which
>>>> allow
>>>> real time data feeds connection to databases ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>  http://www.trading-shim.org/
>>>
>>> and in the FAQ, the 'Other Voices' page collects many more, suitable for
>>> Free and Open Source operating systems.
>>>
>>> -- Russ herrold
>>>
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