Re: [Rd] Building R for Vistax64

2009-03-11 Thread David M Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Sim, Fraser wrote: > Hi all, > > I have successfully built from source the 32-bit version of R on my > Vista 64-bit box. I was hoping to graduate to a 64-bit version so I > could analyze some larger data sets. I have 8gb RAM installed. We (REvolution Computing) ar

Re: [Rd] Building R for Vistax64

2009-03-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Look in MkRules and the rw-FAQ. You can easily build R under Mingw64, but no one has reported making it run -- and several have reported failures. Commercail vendors have built 64-bit R under other Windwos compilers. On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Sim, Fraser wrote: Hi all, I have successfully buil

[Rd] Building R for Vistax64

2009-03-11 Thread Sim, Fraser
Hi all, I have successfully built from source the 32-bit version of R on my Vista 64-bit box. I was hoping to graduate to a 64-bit version so I could analyze some larger data sets. I have 8gb RAM installed. I downloaded the latest 64-bit versions of Perl and MinGW but wasn't sure how to ed