I appreciate the update. We will consider using Linux, which leads me to one more question: what is the maximum RAM that R can use on each platform (Linux and Windows)?
Thanks again for your prompt responses. M. -----Original Message----- From: Luke Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:04 PM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: Milton Lopez; r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] 64 bit R for Windows On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > I would say it will be at least a year, and most likely longer. The > tools used to build R haven't been ported to 64 bit Windows yet. After > those are done (by the MinGW project, not us), we'll need someone with a > 64 bit Windows machine to handle builds there. > > Duncan Murdoch An additional factor is that MinGW will almost certainly follow the MS idea that long's are 4 bytes even under Win64, unlike what every other 64-bit OS does. It will take a fair bit of time and someonw with the motivation to do so to sort out the consequences (which may not be very great but even establishing that may be non-trivial). luke ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
