Re: [R] advice about R for windows speed

2009-11-20 Thread bartjoosen
I can only speak for the Windows part, but isn't it possible to test on Windows 7 64bit? (you can download a test version, and use a dual boot setup to try) I always heard about the difficulties with WinXP 64bit, so maybe that is just the problem? Another thing to find out: maybe you can take adva

Re: [R] advice about R for windows speed

2009-11-19 Thread Carlos Hernandez
Thanks for your reply! I just added some more details below. Our code needs around 1GB of RAM and all machines and R configurations have its default maximum above this number. Our suspicion is that the windows server could run the code in half of its current time (given the apparent factor of 2 b

Re: [R] advice about R for windows speed

2009-11-19 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Nov 19, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Carlos Hernandez wrote: Dear All, I appreciate any advice or hints you could provide about the following. We are running R code in a server (running Windows XP and QuadCore Xeon processors, see details below) and we would like to use the server efficiently. Ou

[R] advice about R for windows speed

2009-11-19 Thread Carlos Hernandez
Dear All, I appreciate any advice or hints you could provide about the following. We are running R code in a server (running Windows XP and QuadCore Xeon processors, see details below) and we would like to use the server efficiently. Our code takes a bit more than 6 seconds per 25 iterations in th