Axel Urbiz wrote: > > Dear R users, > > I know this issue came up in the list several times. Im currently > running > R on 32-bit on Windows and due to memory limitation problems would like to > move to a 64-bit environment. Im exploring my options and would > appreciate > your expertise: > > 1) Windows 64-bit: Prof. Brian Ripley recently posted the > experimental > built of R for win 64-bit. Ill appreciate any feedback on anyone who has > been testing this. He also mentioned that for now, ...this as only being > of > interest for those who only use a few relatively simple packages. But if > one uses packages beyond those relatively simple, how possible is today > to > have those installed? >
As far as I know, the problems with running 64-bit R on windows are due to the lack of a well-developed, 64 bit minGW compiler. Therefore I would imagine that the packages that may have trouble installing under the experimental 64 bit build are those that include either C or Fortran source code that needs to be compiled. You may also find that you need to compile packages yourself-- prebuilt 64 bit versions for windows may not be available on CRAN. Axel Urbiz wrote: > > 2) MacOS or Unix. Sorry for my ignorance on this but if I use any of > these environments on 64-bit and installed R on any of those, this is all > I > need to have R working on 64-bit. How about installing specialized > packages? > Are the packages on the CRAN repositories ready tho use on these systems > or do I have to do any additional work to get them going? > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Axel. > MacOS/Unix/Linux shouldn't have a problem with running 64 bit R and building 64 bit R packages-- this is because the GNU project provides a very mature set of 64 bit compilers that these systems can use. I personally use 64 bit R on Mac OS and have had no problems developing and installing packages for the 64 bit system. -Charlie -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/R-on-64-Bit-tp1563895p1564056.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
