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

[Patrick Connolly]

On Mon, 10-Sep-2007 at 12:26PM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

|> You want whatever all the people you are working with are using
|> to make it as easy as possible to work together with them.

Assuming you're using R, there is negligible difficulty using a
different OS from what your colleagues use (apart from the
inconsistencies you get between different versions of Windows, but
even that has little effect on R).  The standard .RData binary files
work with Windows and Linux (and probably OS X).

The only issue I come across is that Linux can't create WMF files as
readily as Windows can, and that is more than made up for by the
greater flexibility that Linux offers.  It's easier in Linux to
produce Excel files from dataframes and matrices using a perl script
posted to this list by Marc Schwartz.  Thanks again Marc.

Best

Patrick


|> 
|> On 9/10/07, Wensui Liu <liuwensui at gmail.com> wrote:
|> > Good morning, everyone,
|> > I am sorry for this off-topic post but think I can get great answer
|> > from this list.
|> > My question is what is the best OS on PC (laptop) for statistical
|> > computing and why.
|> > I really appreciate your insight.
|> > Have a nice day.
|> 
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