R help - Nov 2006 - For MacBook, best way to do R?

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 any recent experience they can share?  Thanks!

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"I don't know" is an answer.
"I don't know yet" is a better answer.

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 care of all the issues you may run
into. In addition, you will need in install additional software (free
though, from the OS X dvd) before you can compile.


Lanre

On 11/13/06, Mitchell Maltenfort <mmalten at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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 any recent experience they can share?  Thanks!
>
> --
> I can answer any question.
> "I don't know" is an answer.
> "I don't know yet" is a better answer.
>
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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 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 any recent experience they can share?  Thanks!
>
>   

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>>> Thomas Adams<Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> 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?
>
> * install Linux and run R under that?
>
> Does anyone have any recent experience they can share?  Thanks!
>
>   
On my side: new to R, new to Mac OS X, but enjoying this new environment in a
brand new MacBook. I think the R-SIG-Mac list, r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch,
could be of major help.
 
HTH,
 
Ricardo




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