R help - Feb 2008 - R on Mac PRO does anyone have experience with R on such a platform ?

I saw there exists an R version for Mac/OS.
I'd like to hear from someone who is running R on a Mac/OS before venturing
on getting  the following  computer system.
I am in the process of choosing a powerful laptop 17" MB PRO
2.6GHZ(dual-core)  4GBRAM ....

Thank you so much,
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Maura E.M

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I have R on all sorts of Macs, including one's a lot whimpier than the one
you are describing and it works great on all of them.
gary mcclelland
colorado

On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Maura E Monville
<maura.monville@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I saw there exists an R version for Mac/OS.
> I'd like to hear from someone who is running R on a Mac/OS before
> venturing
> on getting  the following  computer system.
> I am in the process of choosing a powerful laptop 17" MB PRO
> 2.6GHZ(dual-core)  4GBRAM ....
>
> Thank you so much,
> --
> Maura E.M
>
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> ______________________________________________
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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On Feb 10, 2008 2:29 AM, Maura E Monville <maura.monville at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I saw there exists an R version for Mac/OS.
> I'd like to hear from someone who is running R on a Mac/OS before
venturing
> on getting  the following  computer system.
> I am in the process of choosing a powerful laptop 17" MB PRO
> 2.6GHZ(dual-core)  4GBRAM ....
>
> Thank you so much,
> --
> Maura E.M
>
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
You can see the R MacOSX FAQ,
http://cran.es.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html.
Also you can post in the Mac R list (R-sig-mac)

Rod.

My experience with R.app on a MACbook has been mostly very positive.
I like the interface much better than that of Windows--
with two exceptions.


a)  I use stepping thru code with control-R.  It's not as convenient on Mac-
the code you want to run has to be actually selected; not good enough just
to be on the line you want.
That slows down code-stepping.
b)  saveHistory() doesn't save the history of the current session -- beware,
I lost some work that way.  you have to actually click a button.
c) no resizing graphs post-hoc,
d) saving graphics to a file is inconvenient except for pdf output.
 
Some plusses are:
a) better built-in editor (if you're not using ESS), including delimiter
matching
b) the history pane is nice,
c) the package installer and manager are nicer than on Win,
d) autocompletion with ctrl-period,
e) you can select text on the current or past command line much easier,
f) attractive interface with lots of cosmetic options.

I've done some tkrplot work in both (using X11 in OSX)
 -- some inconsistencies with placement of widgets show up.

This is off the top of my head.
Check out the mailing list R-sig-mac for more info.


Maura E Monville wrote:
> 
> I saw there exists an R version for Mac/OS.
> I'd like to hear from someone who is running R on a Mac/OS before
> venturing
> on getting  the following  computer system.
> I am in the process of choosing a powerful laptop 17" MB PRO
> 2.6GHZ(dual-core)  4GBRAM ....
> 
> Thank you so much,
> -- 
> Maura E.M
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> 
> 
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