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 > > -- > Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Universit? di Firenze > Dip. Scienza del Suolo e Nutrizione della Pianta > P.zle Cascine 28 50144 Firenze Italia > Tel 39 055 3288 202 (348 lab) Fax 39 055 333 273 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www4.unifi.it/dssnp/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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