Re: st: Stata on Mac or PC

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Data Analytics Corp. wrote:
> I'm more curious right now about Phil's statement that "you can  
> even run Linux or Windows (without a performance penalty and  
> without dual-booting) if you need to" on an Intel MAC machine.

See http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/ or http:// 
www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html.  I don't currently use  
either (I'm still using a PowerPC Mac), but several people I work  
with do, and they claim Parallels works well.



> I'm looking for more input about running Windows software (Stata, S- 
> Plus, SAS primarily) on the MAC as well as creating Word and  
> PowerPoint files on the MAC that my Window's based client can read.

Run R instead of S-Plus whenever possible, and you can use it  
natively on OS X.  Also, there are versions of Word and PowerPoint  
for OS X -- I don't really use these, but they seem to open all of  
the Word and PowerPoint files people send me OK (for that matter, so  
does OpenOffice).


-- Phil

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