> On Mar 30, 2017, at 8:40 PM, Boris Steipe <boris.ste...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > > I can't remember having seen my students write code that runs correctly on > one platform but not the other. Obviously under the hood there are > significant differences, but as far as code goes, R seems quite foolproof. > There are GUI differences in base R - but AFAIK no such differences in the > RStudio IDE. > > B. > >
The Mac version of R is more like the Linux version when run from the UNIX command line. RStudio and the R.app GUI's are both nice IDE's. A few packages are not available because of the need to link to programs that are only available on a particular OS. You can see which ones with a visit to the Cran package checks pages. -- David > > >> On Mar 30, 2017, at 9:21 PM, Neil Salkind <neiljsalk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can someone please direct me to an answer to the question as to how R >> differs for these two operating systems, if at all? Thanks - Neil >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
