On 3/9/2006 4:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking to buy a new desktop which will primarily be used for > analyses of large datasets (100s of MB). I've seen postings from several > years back re the 'optimal' platform for running R, but nothing more > recently. > > > > Specifically, I want to know: 1) if I run R under Windows, does having a > dual-processor machine help speed things up? And 2) is it still true > that R performs about as well under Windows as Linux?
For a big dataset, you're better off with a 64 bit version of R. There isn't one for Windows yet, and won't be for quite a while, since the build tools (gcc, etc.) don't exist. So you're probably better off in Linux. Duncan Murdoch > > > > Thanks, > > > > Greg > > > > > > Gregory Wellenius, ScD > > Cardiology Research Fellow > > Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center > > 330 Brookline Avenue, Deaconess 306 > > Boston, MA 02215 > > 617-632-7680 (phone) > > 617-632-7698 (fax) > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
