As you are asking about R experience from Unix-alike OS users, I think you would clearly do better to ask on the - debian and/or -fedora sigs.
Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:49 AM Carl Witthoft <c...@witthoft.com> wrote: > > > If I should ask over at r-sig-debian instead of here, please tell me. > I don't wish to clog r-sig-mac with off-topic stuff. > > > I've been watching the massive headaches people are dealing with trying > to keep R fully compatible with each MacOS X upgrade, I'm wondering > whether replacing my iMac (2009) with a new Mac really makes sense from > an R - user point of view, as opposed to getting some inexpensive > desktop and installing Linux. I know I can run R and RStudio under > Linux, for example, but don't know what limitations, if any there are > when it comes to building packages from source, getting compatible > compilers, and so on. > > What have some of you 'power R users' discovered when/if you tried to > build , or incorporate Bioconductor or other repository's packages under > Linux? > > > -- > Carl Witthoft > c...@witthoft.com > resume: https://app.box.com/file/498153801347 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac