On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:38:01PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> The Pemtium D 940 supports EMT64 according to
> http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1988 (I googled it).
>
> That is the key: EMT64 is Intel's name for x86_64 and so your box should
> run x86_64 Linux which I believe Debian/Ubuntu refer to as 'amd64' (which
> understandably Intel does not favour and GNU configure does not use on
> Linux).
>
> R compiles readily on x86_64 Linux (it is our main development platform)
> so in so far as there is 'the 64 bit linux version of R' (not really), it
> will run. More precisely you should be able to compile R from the sources
> and also install an amd64 Ubuntu package for R.
I'd rather just grab current prebuild binaries from any CRAN mirror, eg
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
as Vincent and Michael do a really excellent job rebuilding my Debian
packages for Ubuntu x86 and amd64, typically within a day. There are a
few other goodies there too, see the README in the aforementioned
directory.
Dirk
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