[R-SIG-Mac]Re: [R] R cross-platform compatibility--wow!

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

For the record, complete cross-platform compatibility is not guaranteed
until 1.5.0, although all known platforms support XDR (the last piece of
the jigsaw, which we supply in 1.5.0).

All platforms have been able to read files with all line endings (LF,
CRLF, even CR from a Mac) for a long time.

On 10 Apr 2002, Ernesto Jardim wrote:

> Hi
>
> I usually work on the same .RData in windows and linux whithout any
> problem, for a long time.
>
> This is one of preferred features in R.
>
> In my opinion R is one of the best examples in cross-platform
> compatibility.
>
> Best regards, thanks and keep the good work.
>
> EJ
>
> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:23, Don MacQueen wrote:
> > I am impressed!
> >
> > I have R 1.4.1 installed on a remote Solaris system, and R 1.4.0
> > installed on my desktop Macintosh running OS X.
> >
> > I did some work using R on the Solaris system, i.e., read some data,
> > wrote some functions to do things with the data, including x11
> > graphics.
> >
> > I mounted the Solaris directories where I did the work on my Mac
> > using NFS. Running R 1.4.0 on my Mac in the mounted directories,
> > using the data and functions created with R 1.4.1 on the Solaris box,
> > works like a charm. No need to actually transfer the .RData files
> > from one computer to the other.
> >
> > Congratulations and thanks to the R core team and other contributors
> > for this achievement.
> >
> > -Don
> >
> > --
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> > Don MacQueen
> > Environmental Protection Department
> > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> > Livermore, CA, USA
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