On Mar 12, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Gow, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2014-03-11, 12:40 PM, "Simon Urbanek" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> >> Today, you¹re much better off getting a server/workstation which you can >> load with RAM and more cores for computing for the same price (running >> Linux, obviously, you really don¹t want to do computing on >> Windows with R) > Running Linux ... or OS X. > >> - and use your desktop/laptop just to access its computing power. > OP mentioned RStudio. RStudio Server makes this very easy and pleasant to > do (again this means Linux ... or OS X). >
Or RCloud, or OpenCPU, or X11, or VNC, or NX, or … :) Yes, pick the tool you like the best … there are many to chose from these days ... >>> For some background - I have worked on Macs for years, but moved my >>> main work desktop to Windows about 2 years ago. I also do quite a bit >>> of work in QIIME - which can be done on the mac (not the PC) and is both >>> RAM and CPU intensive... so, I can benefit from multiple cores, large >>> RAM, etc. My 2011 MacBook Pro seems extremely sluggish at this point >>> when running basic tasks (probably need to do a fresh OS install), >> >> If you encounter sluggishness in OS X is pretty much always a disk issue. >> Wipe the disk or even better put in a SSD - it¹s more than worth it - a >> whole different world. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon > -Ian > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
