Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-23 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > > The 32-bit/64-bit issue affects purchasing or upgrading decisions > - whether one wants to spend the money on buying cheaper > 32-bit machines, versus more expensive 64-bit machines. That > decision would be based on information available while *not* ha

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-23 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > [About Ncell sizes on 64-bit platforms.] > In my build there is a chapter in the HTML manual > > Choosing between 32- and 64-bit builds > > in the top-level contents, and the information is in there. Maybe the one on CRAN needs fixing... http://cran.r-project.org

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [About Ncell sizes on 64-bit platforms.] >>> We know: we even document it in the appropriate places. >> >> I went and have a look - it is the last section of R-admin (and of >> co

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-23 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> We know: we even document it in the appropriate places. > > I went and have a look - it is the last section of R-admin (and of > course, for those who "read the source", R/include/Rinternals.h). It > would be good to mention t

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-23 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > That's a different question. I said RAM, you quote virtual. I am > suprised at your figure though, as I am used to seeing 40-50Mb virtual > at startup on an Opteron. I am somewhat surprised by it as well. But there is nothing unusual about the build - it is just re

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb RAM, as people (I think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. It's a while since I actually har R used on such small machines, I thin

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-23 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >>Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb RAM, as people (I >>think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. > > It's a while since I actually har R used on such small machines, I think > 64 MB is quite acceptable now.

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
Liaw, Andy wrote: > From: Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen > >>Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >>>Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb >> >>RAM, as people (I >> >>>think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. >> >>It's a while since I actually har R used on such small >>machines, I th

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-20 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb > RAM, as people (I > > think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. > > It's a while since I actually har R used on such small > machines, I think > 64 MB is quite accepta

Re: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-20 Thread Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb RAM, as people (I > think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. It's a while since I actually har R used on such small machines, I think 64 MB is quite acceptable now. Kjetil > > Since then R has grown, and we h

[Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

2006-01-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb RAM, as people (I think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small. Since then R has grown, and we has recently started to optimize R for speed rather than size. I recently tested R-devel on my ancient Win98 notebook with 64Mb RAM -- it ran but