[R] windows vista

[Gabor Grothendieck]

R works on Vista provided you have learned enough about Vista to get around
the enhanced security model.

Microsoft One Care software and the overall better security of Vista
is, in my opinion,
much superior to Norton/Symantec/XP.

Many people use Skype these days and Skype is not officially supported on Vista
so if you want to use that it may or may not work.  My Vista system
crashed shortly
after I tried Skype and reverted back to a prior checkpoint at which
point I lost
several programs I had installed including Skype although I did not
lose any files
that I had created myself.  It may have been a driver issue and not
Skype, per se,
though the fact that Skype is not officially supported makes Skype a prime
suspect. My Vista system had never crashed before that nor has it crashed since
then.  If you search the net you see some people having problems with Skype on
Vista whereas others say they have run it daily with no problem.

There are significant changes in Microsoft Office 2007 including new XML based
file formats rather than the old formats (although you can read and
write the old formats
too), substantial changes in Office user interfaces and a focus on
.Net in place of COM although
COM is still supported enough in Office 2007 to run old software.  R
packages supporting .Net,
similar to the R packages rcom and RDCOMClient for COM, would be nice
to properly support
Vista but I don't think such R packages exist yet.

Other than the lack of Skype support I do like Vista and have been able to get
rid of numerous small utilities that I used under XP since Vista has
many of these
facilities built in.

On Nov 27, 2007 4:40 PM, Suzuky Pinto <suzukypinto at yahoo.com.mx> wrote:
> Hello there
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> Im suzuky Pinto from Mexico.
> And Im buying a new computer and this have windows vista. Could I have any problem using R on it?
> thabks
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