Hi all, I have been using R on Windows for a long time, but now I am ready to move to Mac OS X, but I was just wondering if R works better on Mac than on Windows. This is because I had some memory size issues in the past. Another question is if some of you know an R editor for Mac (just like Tinn-R). Thanks. V?ctor Manuel Garc?a Guerrero Doctorado en Estudios de Poblaci?n, CEDUA, COLMEX Camino al Ajusco N? 20, Pedregal de Sta. Teresa C.P.10740, Tlalpan, M?xico, D.F.
On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Victor Manuel Garcia Guerrero wrote:> Hi all, > > I have been using R on Windows for a long time, but now I am ready > to move to Mac OS X, but I was just wondering if R works better on > Mac than on Windows. This is because I had some memory size issues > in the past. > > Another question is if some of you know an R editor for Mac (just > like Tinn-R). > > Thanks.The notion of "better" is always in the eyes of the useR and will depend upon specific criteria. OSX can run R in both 32 bit and 64 bit modes and indeed the default OSX download for R provided by Simon installs and supports both. If you use the 32 bit version, then from a memory management standpoint, you will not see demonstrable gains over Windows. However, with the 64 bit version, you will avail yourself of a much larger memory address space as compared to running 32 bit R on Windows. That of course presumes that you have a lot of RAM in your Mac to actually take advantage of the larger address space. The 64 bit memory address space is also available via Linux, with appropriate hardware. You might want to review the R OSX FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html and also note that there is a OSX specific e-mail list: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac As far as editors, I am not familiar with the details of Tinn-R, but ESS/Emacs is available for OSX and this is what I use (continuing what I had been using on Linux for the past number of years). Others will likely be able to provide other recommendations and you might want to search the R-SIG-Mac list archives as no doubt there have been such discussions in the past. HTH, Marc Schwartz
Hi, On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Victor Manuel Garcia Guerrero wrote:> Hi all, > > I have been using R on Windows for a long time, but now I am ready > to move to Mac OS X, but I was just wondering if R works better on > Mac than on Windows. This is because I had some memory size issues > in the past.64bit R (from http://r.research.att.com/) works great on 64 bit macs w/ OS X ... my R sessions have chewed up all of the 8gb of ram on my cpu that were available if need be (and choked the rest of my system).> Another question is if some of you know an R editor for Mac (just > like Tinn-R).I'm not sure that there's a consensus. Here's a very recent thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/161063/focus=161335 All the usual players: * Emacs w/ ESS * JGR * Eclipse + StatET plugin * I understand people are excited about an R plugin for jEdit that this guy is working on: http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr/ I use TextMate .. there's an R.bundle for it which I don't really use aside from its syntax highlighting, though it does more (like sending commands to (some) R process). Works great w/ LaTeX+Sweave, too. It seems that's all I really need as I spend most of my time in the terminal then sourcing some file that has the functions I'm trying to refine anyway ... -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact