Re: [R] off-topic: better OS for statistical computing

2007-09-11 Thread Scionforbai
> My question is what is the best OS on PC (laptop) for statistical > computing and why. A free/open source *nix operating system is the best you can have todate, for almost everything, noticeably stability, security, scalability, networking and development, given that your hardware is supported a

Re: [R] off-topic: better OS for statistical computing

2007-09-11 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Mon, 10-Sep-2007 at 07:26PM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: |> My sense is that R users are even split between UNIX and Windows |> users so either will do in terms of the larger community. |> |> Some R packages may not be avaliable on every platform or will |> be available on one platform bef