[R-SIG-Mac] newbie mac question

Kent Manley kent.manley at att.net
Mon Jan 24 01:44:08 CET 2011


The Pogue Missing Manual is good. As are the O'Reilly books. Some of them are more about the Unix under the hood; those are good if you don't have Unix experience, and others are more about the vagaries of Mac-dom. You sort of have to watch it, though--some are dated...

Kent

On Jan 23, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:

> Dear R Mac People:
> 
> I got a Mac Book Air for Christmas but I'm just starting to work with it.
> 
> I've never had a Mac of any kind before but have used Windows and Ubuntu.
> 
> Could you recommend any "baby Mac" references for me, please?
> 
> Also, if I download the R Mac binary, does it work like Windows, in the sense that I just click and install please?
> 
> Thank you for your patience!
> 
> Sincerely,
> Erin
> 
> 
> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
> 
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