We find it equally strange that you posted this! The advice _is_ in the R-admin manual which the INSTALL file asks you to read if you have any questions. It covers using enhanced BLAS libraries.
R builds out of the box on FC3, FC4 and Suse on AMD64. I use Goto's BLAS, but ATLAS can be used (except that building a shared version is tricky). Quite a few packages have been written in ways that stop them building on 64-bit platforms (and the maintainers have been informed but not fixed them). On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jacob Michaelson wrote: > Sorry--sent this before I added a subject line... > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Jacob Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: August 1, 2005 8:51:58 PM MDT >> To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch >> >> >> I've been using R for a while under Mac OS X, which thanks to the R >> on OS X developers, is probably the best platform for learning R. >> I recently built a Linux box with a Pentium D processor, and am >> running an AMD64 port of Ubuntu with the SMP kernel. >> >> After setting up the basics on the box, I thought I'd install R as >> well. I've had a very hard time finding good documentation on some >> configure flags/options for compiling a 64-bit version of R on >> Linux. I thought this was very strange, considering Linux is >> apparently the R developer's platform of choice. >> >> Can anyone point me to some good build instructions for 64-bit R >> under Linux? Should I compile it against any additional libraries >> for better performance? > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html