I've built (and routinely use) 64 bit R on the following platforms:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (AMD Opteron 848) Fedora Core 2 x86_64 (AMD Athlon 64 3800+) SuSE SLES 8 (AMD Opteron 248)
One problem that has come up is that if you want to link R with ATLAS, you need to build shared ATLAS libraries (rather than static). This requires some modifications to the configuation files for ATLAS. But my experience shows that R itself builds out of the box on these systems.
-roger
Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
Hi,
We are planning to buy a 64-bit Linux machine which will mainly run R.
There was an interesting thread on 64-bits on r-help back in April that
basically confirmed that the 64-bit R is fine as long as the length of
an atomic object is less than 2^31 - 1.
My specific question is on which 64-bit Linux distros (SUSE or RedHat)
and processors R is *known* to build out-of-box and run well. Ease of
maintenance is essential here. We have RedHat 7.3 on other (32-bit)
machines and would try not to proliferate the OS-s.
Your information will be highly appreciated,
Thanks,
Vadim
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