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

[Don MacQueen]

I have installed and used both. Jan's summary is pretty good.

I don't remember whether the jpeg graphics driver is available in the 
native (Iacus) version (and can't check right now); it definitely is 
in the X11 (de Leeuw) version. Both have the postscript() graphics 
driver functioning. I have not yet tried dynamic linking to code 
written in another language (eg, fortran or C) with either version; 
that's a potential major difference.

The native version works "out of the box" so to speak. You definitely 
will want to install some version of X-windows to use the X11 
version, so there is some extra work there. I don't think it matters 
which X11 you use (there are only two to choose from, as far as I 
know, and they're fairly comparable, in my opinion, having tried 
both).

Actually, both versions of R are pretty easy to install, so you 
shouldn't rule out trying them both yourself.

-Don

At 6:03 PM -0700 7/17/01, 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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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA
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