On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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.
That is what I meant by 'an amd64 Ubuntu package for R'.
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