[R-SIG-Mac] Mac or Windows...?

[Jan de Leeuw]

Well, you couldn't run it without Windows if it
used Parallels, so it must be CrossOver.

On Nov 10, 2006, at 09:06 , Don MacQueen wrote:

> Simon,
>
> Is that R Windows GUI being run using CrossOver
> (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/)? I don't see any sign of
> Parallels in that screenshot.
>
> I'm getting a new MacBook Pro in a week or so, and while it never
> occurred to me to run the Windows version of R on it, I think it's a
> fun demo of the capability of the new Intel-based Macs.
>
> -Don
>
> At 11:42 AM -0500 11/10/06, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> Carlos,
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Carlos GUERRA wrote:
>>
>>>  Dear friends,
>>>
>>>  I'm thinking about buying a MacBook Pro and I wanted to know if
>>>  anyone can tell me what are the major changes, in "R", between a
>>>  Mac, and a Windows.
>>>
>>
>> The R itself is pretty much the same - the major differences are in
>> the OS (better support for virtual memory, 64-bit support, it's a
>> unix etc.) but not R (basically because we develop R primarily on
>> unix and use unix-based tools to create the Windows version). The GUI
>> for R is different on a Mac - it strives to be more intuitive to Mac
>> users, but I don't think there are many features you would miss (you
>> may rather find a couple of new ones). I suspect that R will be your
>> least problem when switching to Mac OS X ;).
>>
>> And BTW if you really crave for Windows version of R you can actually
>> run it on a MacBook Pro in OS X even without installing Windows and
>> it works :)
>> [screenshot at:
>> http://rosuda.org/misc/iMacWin.png
>> the Mac GUI is in the background, the Windows GUI in the foreground]
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
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