From: Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen > > 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?
I sure don't, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days someone figures out how to get R to run on a video card... (I recall that there was a tutorial session at some datamining conference last year that showed people how to use the GPU for numerical computation, so this may not be too far fetched.) Andy ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
