I know that, but there might be something out there that I haven't heard of. For all I know, maybe Simon is smart enough to install Wine without CrossOver.
-Don (and apologies to everyone; I actually didn't think the question was worthy of r-sig-mac and meant to send it only to Simon) At 9:15 AM -0800 11/10/06, Jan de Leeuw wrote: >Well, you couldn't run it without Windows if it >used Parallels, so it must be CrossOver. > >On Nov 10, 2006, at 09:06 , Don MacQueen wrote: > >>Simon, >> >>Is that R Windows GUI being run using CrossOver >>(http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/)? I don't see any sign of >>Parallels in that screenshot. >> >>I'm getting a new MacBook Pro in a week or so, and while it never >>occurred to me to run the Windows version of R on it, I think it's a >>fun demo of the capability of the new Intel-based Macs. >> >>-Don >> >>At 11:42 AM -0500 11/10/06, Simon Urbanek wrote: >>>Carlos, >>> >>>On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Carlos GUERRA wrote: >>> >>>> Dear friends, >>>> >>>> I'm thinking about buying a MacBook Pro and I wanted to know if >>>> anyone can tell me what are the major changes, in "R", between a >>>> Mac, and a Windows. >>>> >>> >>>The R itself is pretty much the same - the major differences are in >>>the OS (better support for virtual memory, 64-bit support, it's a >>>unix etc.) but not R (basically because we develop R primarily on >>>unix and use unix-based tools to create the Windows version). The GUI >>>for R is different on a Mac - it strives to be more intuitive to Mac >>>users, but I don't think there are many features you would miss (you >>>may rather find a couple of new ones). I suspect that R will be your >>>least problem when switching to Mac OS X ;). >>> >>>And BTW if you really crave for Windows version of R you can actually >>>run it on a MacBook Pro in OS X even without installing Windows and >>>it works :) >>>[screenshot at: >>>http://rosuda.org/misc/iMacWin.png >>>the Mac GUI is in the background, the Windows GUI in the foreground] >>> >>>Cheers, >>>Simon >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> >>-- >>-------------------------------------- >>Don MacQueen >>Environmental Protection Department >>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory >>Livermore, CA, USA >> >>_______________________________________________ >>R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> > >========================================================== >Jan de Leeuw, 11667 Steinhoff Rd, Frazier Park, CA 93225 >home 661-245-1725 skype 661-347-0667 global 254-381-4905 >.mac: jdeleeuw +++ aim: deleeuwjan +++ skype: j_deleeuw >========================================================== > Many nights on the road > and not dead yet --- > the end of autumn. (Basho 1644-1694) -- -------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
