[R-SIG-Mac] Feedback to Apple?

[Randall C Johnson [Contr.]]

I've been generally pleased with OS X. My main problem (not so much R
related) is that many of the scientific applications I would like to run on
my machine don't like the UNIX "based" operating system and require
significant tweaking in order to get them to compile correctly (if I can get
them running at all). It would be nice if OS X behaved more like standard
UNIX or LINUX.

Best,
Randy


On 3/20/07 7:37 PM, "Geoffrey Hutchison" <geoffh at pitt.edu> wrote:

> 
> Hello fellow R users!
> 
> I'm currently serving as a committee member at MacResearch.org, a
> website devoted to science, math, and statistics on  Macs. In about
> two weeks, we'll be visiting Apple to talk about issues, needs,
> desires of science users and developers:
> http://www.macresearch.org/
> macresearch_science_related_requests_for_apple
> 
> So I was writing to ask if you have particular questions or concerns
> which I can proxy? I think this is particularly important, since none
> of the other MacResearch representatives are statistics folks. (I'm a
> chemist -- I'm a happy user of R for data exploration and analysis.)
> 
> For example, are all the R.app compiler problems solved? Do we need
> graphing/plotting libraries for visualization from Apple? What
> feedback can I pass along?
> 
> Many thanks,
> -Geoff
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Geoff Hutchison <geoffh at pitt.edu>
> Assistant Professor, starting Sep. 2007
> University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry
> 219 Parkman Avenue
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> 
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