Hi,
I'm a daily user of both mac and Linux so wanted to offer some thoughts:
1) R runs great on a Mac. There is a standard install from the cran
website that has a nice GUI built into it. You can do things like drag
files to the console and it will fill in the path name.
2) I like using BBedit for all my programming needs. IMHO BBedit is the
most powerful editor I've seen in my many years of programming. There
is a small plugin that understands the R language. My general workflow
is to write code in BBedit and then run it in R using the "source"
function.
3) I purposefully chose NOT to install 64bit R. I have a dual-core
machine. With the 32 bit version, R will happily keep one core running
at 100%, but then I have other core free for my "regular" work.
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On 9/11/09 10:32 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
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
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