Thanks for the note, Brian. This is very helpful. As it turned out,
I only needed to compile the packages locally using package source.
This does not work for "statnet", but I was able to install all of its
components (statnet is a kind of umbrella package). So, it seems my
original question about running both 32 and 64-bit is now irrelevant,
gladly. I still don't know why I was getting memory errors on the 32-
bit architecture, but no need to fuss trying to figure it out now that
things are running on the 64. I was also able to get the 64-bit R.app
GUI up and running...which is nice.
Thanks again for your help!
Ned
On Feb 2, 2009, at 2:33 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
You should be able to install all the packages you need on a 64-but
machine -- the Linux community has been doing so for years, and 64-
bit Linux has been part of the testing equally for several years.
(I only have 64-bit Linux systems.)
With 'statnet', the chain of dependencies includes 'rgl' where you
only have access to the X11 version (and will need to modify the
sources to build it). I suspect that this is actually a problem
with the statnet suite - 'shapes' claims to depend on rgl but
probably should only suggest it. This is the not the place, but the
authors of the suite need to be asked to study and follow 'Writing R
Extensions'.
We know about the rgl issues, and workarounds are being discussed.
'igraph' compiles from the sources on x86_64 Mac OS -- what problems
did you encounter when you tried?
Running 32- and 64-bit R on the same machine is very simple (start
up with R --arch=), but I suspect what you are talking about is
running R.app (the GUI). I'll leave Simon to explain that.
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Smith, Edward C wrote:
Simon, I'm following up a post that you responded to online.
Apologies for the unsolicited email, but I thought you might be
able to answer a quick question. I'm running Mac OSX (Leopard)
with 4GB RAM. Nevertheless, I was getting the Error: Cannot
allocate vector of....etc. message running some data and routines
on the 32-bit R that I installed from CRAN. I then installed the
64-bit and was able to run what I needed without a memory error,
BUT, the problem I have now is that I can't seem to get a few
necessary packages to work in the new version. Specifically, I use
routines from the "statnet" and "igraph" packages quite a bit.
I see two options. First, I'd like to have both the 32 and 64 bit
versions installed on my machine so that I can switch back and
forth. It seems as soon as I get one installed, the other stops
working, and vice versa. The other, better, option is figuring out
a way to get the packages to work in the 64-bit version. Is this
possible? I use the GUI for both 32 bit and 64 bit (installed the
latter per your instructions). Now I seem to be lost completely.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ned Smith
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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