Actually, Berwin - you are right. I also did get 2 shortcuts. I just thought that one of them was old - from my previous R installations. And indeed the 4th line tells what version is running. Great! Thank you! Dimitri
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Berwin A Turlach <ber...@maths.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > G'day Dimitri, > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:45:00 -0400 > Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Question: I installed R verison 2-12.0 on my Windows 7 (64 bit) PC. >> When I was installing it, it did not ask me anything about 32 vs. 64 >> bit. So, if I run R now - is it running as a 32-bit or a 64-bit? > > Well, when I did the same, I got two shortcuts installed on my desktop, > one named R 2.12.0 and the other named R x64 2.12.0. If I had any > doubts which version of R these shortcuts would start, then the fourth > line of the start-up message would put them to rest. Missing that > message, you can always issue the command > >> .Machine$sizeof.pointer > > if the answer is 4, you are running 32bit, if the answer is 8, then you > are running 64 bit. > > HTH. > > Cheers, > > Berwin > > ========================== Full address ============================ > Berwin A Turlach Tel.: +61 (8) 6488 3338 (secr) > School of Maths and Stats (M019) +61 (8) 6488 3383 (self) > The University of Western Australia FAX : +61 (8) 6488 1028 > 35 Stirling Highway > Crawley WA 6009 e-mail: ber...@maths.uwa.edu.au > Australia http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~berwin > -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.com ______________________________________________ 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.