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

Thomas Adams Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov
Tue Nov 14 13:27:37 CET 2006


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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