David Winsemius wrote: > > > Perhaps the fact that the stable CRAN version of R for (any) Windows > is 32-bit? It would expand your memory space somewhat but not as much > as you might naively expect. > > (There was a recent announcement that an experimental version of a 64- > bit R was available (even with an installer) and there are vendors who > will supply a 64-bit Windows version for an un-announced price. The > fact that there was not as of January support for binary packages > seems to a bit of a constraint on who would be able to "step up" to > use full 64 bit R capabilities on Win64. >
According to this post by Dr. Ripley: http://n4.nabble.com/R-on-64-Bit-td1563895.html CRAN is building 64bit Windows packages for R 2.11 which is currently under development. From the looks of it, 64 bit support may be coming to Windows with the next major release of R. David Winsemius wrote: > > I'm guessing from the your failure to mention potential software > constraints that you are not > among that more capable group, as I am also not.) > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-January/056301.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-January/056411.html > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Best-Hardware-OS-For-Large-Data-Sets-tp1572129p1572256.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.
