On 29-09-2012, at 11:58, ricardo.julio.rodriguez.fernan...@sergas.es wrote:
> > I bet Simon is right. Two main reasons: > > 1. I was following a blog post on how to set up FastRWeb on Mac OS X. This > post (http://www.r-bloggers.com/setting-up-fastrweb-on-mac-os-x/) speaks > about installing from sources and, even though "I think" I move to binaries > prior to posting here on this issue, I can't be sure about that. > 2. My understanding about multiple sub-architectures is more than poor. So, I > could be sure I used the correct terms and concepts when analyzing the issue > I was facing here. > > I always try to stick to "official" sources of information when studying how > to use a given R piece of software, but Google and other search engines put > tones of other documents a couple of clicks away and is by no means easy to > decide which one deserves to be followed. I think many of them can be useful > when read with enough background as to be able to separate noise and > information. > > Please, allow me to hijack this thread to put in another, for me, related > question I'm trying to work out on the list. To the best of my understanding > and by following the documentation when I install R binary for Mac OS X both > i386 and x86_64 are available. In fact I can easily choose among them by > launching R Console by click on R or R64 "icons". But I'm not able to find > the switch I must use to get the same thing when running R from the command > line: I always get x86_64. I'm not able to solve this question by following R > for Mac OS X FAQ or other sources of information available from CRAN. > For 32-bit R in Terminal R32 R --arch=i386 For 64bit R in Terminal R R64 R --arch=x86_64 Berend _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
