Are there Linux or Mac versions of StatsDirect?
StatsDirect is written only for Microsoft Windows at present. Several StatsDirect users run it happily on a Mac under a Windows virtual machine or application, but we do not test this for compatibility. We might develop a cross-platform version in the future. The reasons for this choice are: 1. The vast majority of researchers have access to a computer running Microsoft Windows. 2. The R&D focus of StatsDirect is concentrated upon the evolution of statistical science and upon the needs of researchers, rather than the support of many different platforms. 3. Cross-platform software development is not yet a robust opportunity for numerical software. For example, the same algorithm written as a Java applet could give different results on different computers using different Java virtual machines – it might be possible to integrity check sample calculations against known floating point problems in cross-platform work, but we could not reasonably guarantee to have tested all possibilities on
