[R] help on determining operating system

[LU YING]

Dear list,

I am an R user and I also write my own package in R(sometime i need to 
write  in C), and right now i am thinking about buying a new 
workstation--and i am trying to decide if i should get 
a mac with OS X or a linux machine (for example Dell).

I have experience using R on linux (but i have been just a user and never 
been a admin) but i am hesitating of managing a linux system on my own 
(btw I would like to have my new workstation to be used as a server), so 
right now I am leaning toward of buying a Mac Pro. But from the website, 
it sounds like R doesnt work quite well with Mac operating system 
yet...so I was wondering if anybody here have any experiences of 
using/developing R package on a Mac machine? Is it smooth enough?

(oh by the way, i am not a Mac user yet, Windows has been the primary 
operating system that i used, but after hearing many good things 
of OS X, I am really interested in switching over.)

any suggestions are appreciated!

Ying


Ying Lu
Assistant Professor
Dept. Sociology
U-Colorado at Boulder