Note that Ottorino has only 1GB of RAM installed, which makes a 64-bit
version of R somewhat moot. See chapter 8 of
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html
I would install a i386 version of R on x86_64 Linux unless I had 2Gb or
more of RAM. I don't know how easily that works on Ubuntu these days, but
I would try it.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Ljubomir J. Buturovic wrote:
Hi Ottorino,
I have been using R on 64-bit Ubuntu for about a year without
problems, both Intel and AMD CPUs. Installing and using several
packages (e1071, svmpath, survival) also works. However, I had to
install R from source:
$ gunzip -c R-2.6.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd R-2.6.1
$ ./configure --enable-R-shlib; make; make pdf
# make install; make install-pdf
Notice that `make install' has to be run as root.
I am using Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04), although I doubt that makes a
difference.
Hope this helps,
Ljubomir
8rino-Luca Pantani writes:
> Dear R-users.
> I eventually bought myself a new computer with the following
> characteristics:
>
> Processor AMD ATHLON 64 DUAL CORE 4000+ (socket AM2)
> Mother board ASR SK-AM2 2
> Ram Corsair Value 1 GB DDR2 800 Mhz
> Hard Disk WESTERN DIGITAL 160 GB SATA2 8MB
>
> I'm a newcomer to the Linux world.
> I started using it (Ubuntu 7.10 at work and FC4 on laptop) on a regular
> basis on May.
> I must say I'm quite comfortable with it, even if I have to re-learn a
> lot of things. But this is not a problem, I will improve my knowledge
> with time.
>
> My main problem now, is that I installed Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on the
> new one amd64.
>
> To install R on it i followed the directions found here
> http://help.nceas.ucsb.edu/index.php/Installing_R_on_Ubuntu
>
> but unfortunately it did not work.
>
> After reading some posts on the R-SIG-debian list, such as
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2007-October/000253.html
>
> I immediately realize that an amd64 is not the right processor to make
> life easy.
>
> Therefore I would like to know from you, how can I solve this problem:
> Should I install the i386 version of R ?
> Should I install another flavour of Linux ?
> Which one ?
> Fedora Core 7 ?
> Debian ?
>
> Thanks a lot, for any suggestion
>
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