Andrew Ferris wrote: > Hello, > > I've been asked to get R (2.4.1) installed on a IBM p570 server. This is a > server with power CPUs and is running SLES 10. It currently has 12GB of RAM > so I'd like to make sure I have the 64 bit version of R so as to take > advantage of the extra memory. Since it's a power CPU server that means I'll > have to compile R from source. > > I've searched the r_users list but most of the power CPU correspondence > concerns either AIX or Macs. SLES 10 uses GCC 4.1.0 by default. Could someone > please help me with some guidance on the necessary parameters for configure > to ensure a 64 bit version of R is compiled? > > > Just running the 64bit version of the OS usually suffices (at least on Linux variants). Easiest check on a running R is
> .Machine$sizeof.pointer [1] 4 which gives 8 on 64-bit builds. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
