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 > >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]