[R] Difference between R for the Mac and for Windows

[David Winsemius]

> On Mar 30, 2017, at 8:40 PM, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> I can't remember having seen my students write code that runs correctly on one platform but not the other. Obviously under the hood there are significant differences, but as far as code goes, R seems quite foolproof. There are GUI differences in base R - but AFAIK no such differences in the RStudio IDE.
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The Mac version of R is more like the Linux version when run from the UNIX command line. RStudio and the R.app GUI's are both nice IDE's. A few packages are not available because of the need to link to programs that are only available on a particular OS. You can see which ones with a visit to the Cran package checks pages.

-- 
David


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>> On Mar 30, 2017, at 9:21 PM, Neil Salkind <neiljsalkind at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Can someone please direct me to an answer to the question as to how R differs for these two operating systems, if at all? Thanks - Neil 
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David Winsemius
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