On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, G?ran Brostr?m wrote:
> In the R for Windows FAQ (2.7.2) we have under 2.2:
> "There is no specific version for x64 Windows, but the standard 32-bit
> version works well enough."
> Does that include the handling of huge data sets?
Yes, but 'huge' is not the largest size in the Huber/Wegman
classification. Also, few people with enormous datasets use Windows.
> What I have read in other places indicates that the answer is
"No". If
> so, will there be a 64-bit version availble soon? When I websearch for
> 64-bit MinGW it seems to exist out there.
Please do read all the FAQ: this is covered in Q8.1. You are welcome
to try building a 64-bit version using the work that has already been
done, and you are welcome to pay for someone else to do so (and I
understand that such projects are under way). If I wanted to do this I
would buy the PGI compilers and expect the port to be relatively simple.
I've wasted far too much time on mingw64: several times I have built a
complete version of R and it just crashed or failed even to start.
> --
> G?ran Brostr?m
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