On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:45 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > <snipped> > >> Now, the interesting questions are: (1) is Atlas multi-threaded on > >> *every* platform, or more specifically, on Windows?, > > > > > > By default it is not multi-threaded on any platform, and we have not > > succeeded in compiling a multi-threaded version on Windows except by > > using Cygwin extensions (i.e. not actually on Windows). > > Thanks for the explanations. As I said, my main interests in running > R under Wine is mostly about having a GUI, but the multi-threading > possibility is an interesting discussion; also re-compiling > the whole lot (either for win32 or linux) just for the *possibility* of > speeding up is a bit painful, so having drop-in dll replacement > (or a shared-library replacement) for trying-out sounds rather attractive.
Sorry for jumping in here and no disrespect intended to anyone, but I am confused relative to the desire and benefits of running R under Wine on Linux simply for the sake of using the RGui.exe menus, when there are other substantive tradeoffs relative to running R natively on Linux, as Prof. Ripley has noted. The one "advantage" that I had seen some time ago, was the possibility of being able to generate metafile graphics for inclusion with MS Office apps by using the native Windows libs (in a dual-boot scenario as I recall). However other substantively better options for generating high quality graphics have been proposed and discussed here frequently. If you want a more "full featured" GUI, if you are uncomfortable coding from the command line, there is a list available at: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ some of which are cross-platform compatible. Marc ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
