Actually, you can easily run Linux in Virtual Box. But I agree, with Homebrew there is tons of unix tools available from the command line, and then some.
el — Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad Mini 5 On 1 Apr 2020, 23:42 +0200, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org>, wrote: > Carl, > > I would argue that you won't really gain anything - if you use R the > Linux-way (build R from sources), it would be the same on macOS and Linux - > and some people do that. So for R I don't think there is a difference. I'm > using Linux for everything other than my desktop/laptop and the main reason > I'm sticking with macOS at the edge is the availability of software for > dealing with the rest of the world (MS Office, Adobe, Apple Mail etc.). If > you don't need any of it, then you may be happy with Linux. The biggest issue > there tends to be setting up your machine as the hardware support is far less > streamlined than on macOS. Some of my friends are running Linux on Mac > hardware - but you need the be real expert for that. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > On 2/04/2020, at 7:48 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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
