R help - Feb 2005 - R on solaris 10 on a 64-bit ultra60 sparc

Hi
since I have no experience with solaris and sparc-architecture. We 
installed the latest Solaris 10 on a 64-bit ultra60 sparc machine. Since 
the solaris 10 is said to run native linux-applications: can I just 
download any r-binaries for linux? if yes, for which distribution?

or are there any solaris 10 binaries? or do I need to compile R myself 
on the sparc?

sorry for this beginner-question. but I am grateful for any small hint

cheers
christoph

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> since I have no experience with solaris and sparc-architecture. We
installed
> the latest Solaris 10 on a 64-bit ultra60 sparc machine. Since the solaris
10
> is said to run native linux-applications: can I just download any
r-binaries
> for linux? if yes, for which distribution?
You would need sparc-linux binaries, and there are none available.
> or are there any solaris 10 binaries? or do I need to compile R myself on
the
> sparc?
You need to compile it yourself.  That is easy if you have a compiler, 
which Solaris does not by default.  Look in the R-admin manual for hints, 
and then ask whoever locally does have such experience to install what you 
need.

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Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> Hi
> since I have no experience with solaris and sparc-architecture. We 
> installed the latest Solaris 10 on a 64-bit ultra60 sparc machine. Since 
> the solaris 10 is said to run native linux-applications: can I just 
Native for what? 32 bit linux on x86 architecture, 64 bit on x86, 32 bit 
on sparc, 64 bit on sparc??? I guess the latter, and there are no R 
binaries for linux on sparc available, AFAIK.

Conclusion: Compile yourself, so you can also make use of the SUN 
performance libraries (hope I remember name correctly) or ATLAS / Goto's 
BLAS.

Uwe Ligges

> download any r-binaries for linux? if yes, for which distribution?
> 
> or are there any solaris 10 binaries? or do I need to compile R myself 
> on the sparc?
> 
> sorry for this beginner-question. but I am grateful for any small hint
> 
> cheers
> christoph
> 
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