Milton Lopez wrote: > Duncan: > > Thanks for your reply. Not being a part of the R world and having to assist > with these purchases, I have to ask what "not yet" means. I realize that this > is a difficult question to answer even for commercial software, but I am > hoping you or someone else on the list may shed some additional light on the > subject.
I would say it will be at least a year, and most likely longer. The tools used to build R haven't been ported to 64 bit Windows yet. After those are done (by the MinGW project, not us), we'll need someone with a 64 bit Windows machine to handle builds there. Duncan Murdoch > Thanks in advance. > > Milton F. López > IT Guy > Inter-American Tuna Commission (IATTC) > 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive > La Jolla, CA 92037 > Tel: (858) 546-7041, Fax: (858) 546-7133 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.iattc.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:39 PM > To: Milton Lopez > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] 64 bit R for Windows > > Milton Lopez wrote: > >>I am assisting in the purchase of 64-bit Windows XP system for researchers >>who run R. These systems will have AMD Opteron processors and at least 4GB of >>RAM. I'd appreciate advice on whether there is a working version of R that >>can take full advantage of such systems. > > > No, there are no 64 bit Windows versions yet. You'll need to install > some 64 bit version of Linux on those machines to take full advantage of > the chips. > > Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
