[R-lang] Moving from Linux to Mac OS

[Milton Lopez]

Ken.

Thanks for the feedback. I am also curious to see how Apple's GCD will
find its way into R. FYI I got another reply from campus pointing to
http://www.revolution-computing.com/  I talked with a sales rep who told
me they will be looking closely at GCD.


Cheers


M.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Williams [mailto:ken.williams at thomsonreuters.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:52 AM
To: Milton Lopez; r-lang at ling.ucsd.edu
Cc: Cleridy Lennert
Subject: Re: [R-lang] Moving from Linux to Mac OS

I use a Mac Pro as my primary workstation, and installing R packages is
a
snap.  Just "R CMD INSTALL packagefoo.tar.gz" as usual, or use the stuff
inside the R gui.

Tell her that the R gui (R.app) is really excellent, btw.

Out of the box R doesn't do special stuff to use multiple processors,
but
there are various existing ways to get it to, and Grand Central Dispatch
gives me optimism that even better multiproc support is around the
corner.

 -Ken


On 9/15/09 1:45 PM, "Milton Lopez" <mlopez at iattc.org> wrote:

> One of our researchers is considering replacing her Red Hat Linux
> workstation with a Mac Pro. One of her concerns is being able to build
R
> libraries on the Mac. As an R-illiterate sysadmin I suspect this would
> no more difficult on the Mac, but we would like to make sure.
> 
> Also, some years ago I was told that R does not take advantage of
> multiple processors. Has there been any improvement in that area? This
> would have an impact on configuring the new system with more
processors
> vs. fewer but faster ones.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your comments.
> 
> 
> Milton F. Lopez
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