[R-SIG-Mac]Which version should I use?

[Jan de Leeuw]

It's the Darwin/deLeeuw version. There is no Cocoa version
yet, by anybody.

The answer to the question about which version to use is
not straightforward. If you want to run on OS 9 as well as
OS X, you have to use Carbon/Iacus. If you are a Mac
person through and through you will probably use that
one too. If you like the Aqua interface and the menus,
same preference.

If you are used to Unix/X11, then the Darwin/deLeeuw
version may be more appealing. Or if  you like to change
window managers every other day. Or if you like the menus
that come with the gnome interface and run R from the
gnome desktop. Or if you like to use update.packages().
Or if you want to be able to add additional packages a
bit more easily. Or if you want to use tcl/tk. Or Emacs
and ESS.

So far, I have somewhat of a bad conscience to use my
Mac as a Darwin/X11 machine, but I think the Darwin/deLeeuw
version is somewhat more complete and convenient for my
particular tastes. Eventually, I hope to be able to switch back
to a version that does not use X11, maybe to a Cocoa
interface to R running in Darwin (as we already have for
Perl, for Scheme48, for Chaitin's Lisp, for mySQL, for
Apache, and for Squeak)


On Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 06:03 PM, Phillip N Price wrote:

>
> Apologies for the 0th-order question.
>
> I'm a longtime user of Splus, but I am switching (or trying, anyway) to
> the Mac, and would like to take this opportunity to try R.  I'm mostly
> hoping to _use_ R, not work on it, though I am of course happy to submit
> bug reports and that sort of thing.
>
> My immediate question is: should I use the Carbon/Iacus or the
> Cocoa(?)/deLeeuw version?  Are there major functional differences?  Are
> they similar in terms of stability?  Are there likely to be any
> difficulties in set-up, or do they both "just work"; for the latter
> question, does the specific species of X-windows matter?
>
> Thanks in advance for answers, and thank you all for working on this
> software.
>
> --Phil Price
>   Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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