Re: [R] For MacBook, best way to do R?

2006-11-14 Thread Thomas Adams
Mitchell, I have been using R on a variety of Macs for a couple of years with no problems. The R aqua interface is very good and I see no compelling reason to not use the precompiled binaries. Regards, Tom Mitchell Maltenfort wrote: I'm getting a MacBook and I'd like to stick with OS X

Re: [R] For MacBook, best way to do R?

2006-11-14 Thread Ricardo Rodríguez - Your EPEC ICT Team
Thomas Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/11/2006 13:27 I'm getting a MacBook and I'd like to stick with OS X rather than convert it to Linux just yet. However, my main concern is having decent performance. What's my best option: *use the existing binary for R? *compile R fresh under OS X? *

[R] For MacBook, best way to do R?

2006-11-13 Thread Mitchell Maltenfort
I'm getting a MacBook and I'd like to stick with OS X rather than convert it to Linux just yet. However, my main concern is having decent performance. What's my best option: *use the existing binary for R? *compile R fresh under OS X? * install Linux and run R under that? Does anyone have

Re: [R] For MacBook, best way to do R?

2006-11-13 Thread Lanre Okusanya
Running R using the precomplied binary works really well and you should have no issues. Unless you really know what you are doing compiling R to work on a mac from sctrach can be at the very least tedious, at most, daunting, and there is really no point in doing so, since the binary already takes