R help - Aug 2010 - About installing R package

Hi folks,

CPU - AMD X4 955
Onboard RAM - 8G

I'm prepared to learn R and am going to install R package on 64 bit Windows 
running as VM (guest) on Oracle VituralBox.  Please advise

1) I have 64 bit Win7 and Win Server 2008 R2 running as VM on VirtualBox.  Which
version of Windows will be more suitable for running R?  Win7 Or Win Server 2008
R2 ?

2) What will be the min physical RAM to be assigned to the OS for running R?

3) Additionally I'm also prepared install another R on a VM running 64 bit 
Ubuntu 10.04.  Is there any min physical RAM requirement? Of Debian 5.04 and 
Ubuntu 10.04 which of them will be more suitable for running R?

TIA

B.R.
Stephen L

On 03.08.2010 17:48, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> CPU - AMD X4 955
> Onboard RAM - 8G
>
> I'm prepared to learn R and am going to install R package on 64 bit
Windows
> running as VM (guest) on Oracle VituralBox.  Please advise
>
> 1) I have 64 bit Win7 and Win Server 2008 R2 running as VM on VirtualBox. 
Which
> version of Windows will be more suitable for running R?  Win7 Or Win Server
2008
> R2 ?

Any of those.

> 2) What will be the min physical RAM to be assigned to the OS for running
R?
Well, for R itself just few Mb, but if you want to analyse a huge data 
up to as much as your have RAM installed...

> 3) Additionally I'm also prepared install another R on a VM running 64
bit
> Ubuntu 10.04.  Is there any min physical RAM requirement? Of Debian 5.04
and
> Ubuntu 10.04 which of them will be more suitable for running R?
Any suitable, the size of RAM depends on your data.

Uwe Ligges

>
> TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
>
>
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