[R-SIG-Mac] R for Mac, good enough?

[Payam Minoofar]

The power of R is virtually unmatched, and R for Mac works extremely well. 

The learning curve is steep, however, and documentation is difficult to grasp, even though it is abundantly available. I am more partial to a commercial data analysis package with which I grew up, but I have done enough work with R on the mac platform to recommend it highly.

With the caveat that it takes some time to learn. Once you have learned the language, however, you are truly not limited in any way in what you can do.

Install R and search the packages library for any packages that specifically address your needs. If they exist, start learning!
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Payam Minoofar, Ph. D.
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> Dear R and Mac friend,
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> I am rather impressed by R, but dont know if it is worthwile to spend  
> time learning it, if the Mac version is not comprehensive enough. I am  
> a PhD student in macroeconometrics, with focus on time-series.
> 
> Would you recommend me to use R in that case? And which material and  
> packages would you recommend to go trough and download?
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> Sincere regards
> Deniz
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> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:03:29 +0100
> From: Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl>
> To: Deniz Kellecioglu <deniz.kellecioglu at gmail.com>
> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R for Mac, good enough?
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> On 03-12-2010, at 09:33, Deniz Kellecioglu wrote:
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>> Dear R and Mac friend,
>> 
>> I am rather impressed by R, but dont know if it is worthwile to spend time learning it, if the Mac version is not comprehensive enough. I am a PhD student in macroeconometrics, with focus on time-series.
>> 
> 
> I wouldn't worry about the quality of the Mac version of R. It just works.
> It is more than excellent. 
> The GUI R.app is easy and fun to use.
> Commandline R works just fine.
> 32-bit and 64-bit version.
> All thanks to the work of Simon Urbanek.
> 
> And there is a brilliant interface to R for the TextMate editor.
> 
>> Would you recommend me to use R in that case? And which material and packages would you recommend to go trough and download?
> 
> Goto CRAN and download the installer package for Mac OS X: R-2.12.0.pkg
> If you haven't worked with R before, you should look at the Rintro manual.
> Goto CRAN and click on Manuals; you'll be taken to the page with an overview of R documentation.
> 
> For further packages you can have a look at Task Views (also on CRAN). Have a look at the TimeSeries view.
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> /Berend
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