Hello, I work as a support staff for a university and one of the faculty member in our economics department was requesting to have Linux instead of Windows as his operating system. He claims that R will not use all the cpu cores in Windows but it will on Linux. He has never used Linux and claims he will try to learn it, which makes me worried.
I have no knowledge of R, but from what I've seen online you need to use Parallel package or SMP functions in your code to actually get it to use multiple cores on Windows, is it not the same on Linux? Tried R Studio and was able to follow an example online, I able to execute code that seems to only use however many cores I specify for it to use.
Posted on /r/rlanguage as well but mod recommended that I post it here as well https://www.reddit.com/r/Rlanguage/comments/48c4yx/r_on_linux_vs_windows/
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