Adam,
On Dec 15, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The reason I started this thread was not to express my unhappiness, but
> simply asking why there are two R apps installed by the package. So that was
> just a curiosity. Since I do use "rgl" a lot, which falls back to X11 on
> 64-bit rather than native UI, I figured out (wrong) that this may be the
> reason. I work with pretty heavy data, have 12GB RAM, so going 64-bit was
> natural choice for me, but going trough X11 for OpenGL is not what I'd
> expect. That's why I am going to make Cocoa wrapper for rgl that should
> handle that.
>
> There is nowhere any complaint stashed in what I wrote about how R works or
> how it looks like (the icon is IMHO nice), I was just asking for the REASON
> and PURPOSE having two apps. It is just Simon's arguments do not convince me,
You asked about reasons, you got them. They are not intended to convince you. I
even told you how you can make yourself happy - but note that it is about
*you*, not anyone else. You have the right to disagree, but you don't have the
right to impose your view on everyone else (unfortunately a more common trait
in recent times) - which is what the exchange looked more like. (More off-list.)
Cheers,
Simon
> despite my regard for him. You can switch between arch via Finder, you get a
> report about current arch during R startup. But you guys take what I wrote
> (which is just an opinion) as accusations. As I said the only mistake was the
> original subject that was suggesting some "incompleteness" based on false
> assumption related to "rgl", and I am sorry about that.
>
> Just like that.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Adam Strzelecki
>
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