R devel - Aug 2005 - (no subject)

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?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

--Jake

Sorry--sent this before I added a subject line...

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jacob Michaelson <jjmichael@comcast.net>
> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> --Jake
>
>

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