On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:45 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> <snipped> >>>> Now, the interesting questions are: (1) is Atlas multi-threaded on >>>> *every* platform, or more specifically, on Windows?, >>> >>> >>> By default it is not multi-threaded on any platform, and we have not >>> succeeded in compiling a multi-threaded version on Windows except by >>> using Cygwin extensions (i.e. not actually on Windows). >> >> Thanks for the explanations. As I said, my main interests in running >> R under Wine is mostly about having a GUI, but the multi-threading >> possibility is an interesting discussion; also re-compiling >> the whole lot (either for win32 or linux) just for the *possibility* of >> speeding up is a bit painful, so having drop-in dll replacement >> (or a shared-library replacement) for trying-out sounds rather attractive. > > Sorry for jumping in here and no disrespect intended to anyone, but I am > confused relative to the desire and benefits of running R under Wine on > Linux simply for the sake of using the RGui.exe menus, when there are > other substantive tradeoffs relative to running R natively on Linux, as > Prof. Ripley has noted.
One reason for doing so is to be able to prepare for teaching in a Windows environment: I believe this is why it is mentioned in the FAQ. (I personally test on the machine to be used just to be sure things work.) > The one "advantage" that I had seen some time ago, was the possibility > of being able to generate metafile graphics for inclusion with MS Office > apps by using the native Windows libs (in a dual-boot scenario as I > recall). However other substantively better options for generating high > quality graphics have been proposed and discussed here frequently. I am not 100% convinced that they are `substantively better' in all environments, and I still do that sometimes. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
