Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb RAM, as people (I 
> think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small.

It's a while since I actually har R used on such small machines, I think
64 MB is quite acceptable now.

Kjetil

> 
> Since then R has grown, and we has recently started to optimize R for 
> speed rather than size.  I recently tested R-devel on my ancient Win98 
> notebook with 64Mb RAM -- it ran but startup was rather slow on what I 
> think is a 233MHz processor and very slow disc.
> 
> R still runs in 16Mb, but that is getting tight.  Does anyone have any 
> need to run on a smaller machine than my 64Mb notebook?
>

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