On Mon, 10-Sep-2007 at 12:26PM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: |> You want whatever all the people you are working with are using |> to make it as easy as possible to work together with them.
Assuming you're using R, there is negligible difficulty using a different OS from what your colleagues use (apart from the inconsistencies you get between different versions of Windows, but even that has little effect on R). The standard .RData binary files work with Windows and Linux (and probably OS X). The only issue I come across is that Linux can't create WMF files as readily as Windows can, and that is more than made up for by the greater flexibility that Linux offers. It's easier in Linux to produce Excel files from dataframes and matrices using a perl script posted to this list by Marc Schwartz. Thanks again Marc. Best Patrick |> |> On 9/10/07, Wensui Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> > Good morning, everyone, |> > I am sorry for this off-topic post but think I can get great answer |> > from this list. |> > My question is what is the best OS on PC (laptop) for statistical |> > computing and why. |> > I really appreciate your insight. |> > Have a nice day. |> |> ______________________________________________ |> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list |> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help |> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html |> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Middle minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Anon ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
