On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > To differentiate the then-different > chips of AMD from Intels Itanium ia64 line, the 'amd64' name was > introduced. These days ia64 is ancient history and "we're all amd64 users". > > By the way, if you decide to go with Ubuntu or Debian, the r-sig-debian list > is there to help. > > Hth, Dirk
You will also see the "amd64" architecture referred to by the name "x86_64". It is yet another name for the same architecture. As far as the choice of distro is concerned, I've had total success with R on all the major distros on my 64-bit machine. But I would definitely give the nod to a Debian-based distro like Ubuntu because of the large existing base of R packages in the Debian / Ubuntu repositories. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
