On 15 Dec 2011, at 11:38, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>
> You're looking on it from developer's perspective. But regular user that want
> to make few plots via R do not necessarily know what is 64-bit at all. That's
> why on Mac there's a convention to use FAT binaries and default to 64-bit
> unless you specify otherwise (like via Finder properties for an app) or
> there's no capable CPU. All this are for sake of consistency and single
> experience for all apps.
I'd like to chime in. I *am* a regular user. I *do want* to know whether I am
using R in 32 or 64-bit mode. I *am* using R, which means that I am *not* Joe
random, but a sample of one from a nonrandom selfselected population of people
who use a modestly user unfriendly statistical alnguage, either for data
analysis or for writing their own code. So, considering R users as the average
Mac users is a *wrong* assumption.
> Just to be clear, I do agree with you in general, that R user should be able
> to choose between 32-bit and 64-bit version, but this can be done without
> breaking the OSX conventions, via Finder.
I damn well do already, clicking on 'R64' rather than 'R', which is the 32-bit
R.app. You seem to have a personal beef with the fact that the R GUI does not
behave the way *you* think it should. I do have a beef with the quality of the
icon of the R.app, so I did make a higher resolution for myself and sent a copy
to Simon in case he chooses to use the damn thing. If Simon does not use the hi
res icon, I can change the icon of the R.app every time, at infinitum, and live
with it.
If you are not happy with the R/R64 situation, write your own GUI and use it.
There are other R GUIs for OSX already ("R commander"?, something like that).
I'd much rather be able to change the default font permanently in the R.app
that get bothered by the 32/64-bit issue.
Just a though.
F
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