My 2 cents: Just go for the inexpensive desktop + Linux. Debian-based or
RedHat-based distros are great for developing R/Bioconductor packages.
I've been maintaining/troubleshooting package builds on
Linux/Windows/Mac for 15 years and Linux is **by far** the easiest
platform to deal with. Still a mystery to me why one would choose macOS
for developing R/Bioconductor packages.
H.
On 4/1/20 11:48, Carl Witthoft 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?
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