On 2009.11.28 21:50:09, Daniel Nordlund wrote: > > > - Is a Unix-like platform a better option than win-64? Again, would > > > this solve my memory limitation problems? > > > > Possibly, but Win64 should provide plenty of memory (I believe Windows 7 > > Ultimate can use up to 192 GB of memory). You just have to find the > > system that can take that much... With Unix/Linux you can probably cut > > back some overhead, and the memory management is most likely better, but > > unless you need to go over 192GB of memory, you don't necessarily have > > to move to a different platform. > > > > ~Jason > > Windows 64-bit can certainly handle large memory spaces, but unless > something has changed recently it my understanding Revolution > Computing's 64-bit is the only 64-bit version of R available for > Windows (due to the unavailability of adequate open source compilers > for 64-bit Windows). So 64-bit R will need to be Revolution's > solution or a non-Windows platform.
It appears that GNU does have a project that has had some success at compiling 64 bit Windows applications: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/ Not sure if all of the pieces are there for an R build, though. -- Jason W. Morgan Graduate Student Department of Political Science *The Ohio State University* 154 North Oval Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210 ______________________________________________ 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.
