On 5/30/2006 2:18 PM, roger bos wrote: > I am today where Alastiar was back in August 2005. I am considering buying > a 64 bit machine with 16GB of memory to run bigger objects in R, which > brougt me down the Linux path. The problem is that my company's IT staff > doesn't support Linux and this path was getting very bumpy for me, so I am > oscilating back towards 64bit Windows. I thought the lack of a 64 > bit Windows binary was due to there being no open-source gcc compiler for > 64bit Windows, but reading Prof. Ripley reply seems to imply that I could > not even buy a compiler and compiler the source code myself because there > are none that treat a long as 64 bits. Is that the only remaining obstacle > and does that obstacle still exist?
I would somewhat seriously suggest that you give your support staff a copy of the R source, and get them to work out the details of compiling it in Win64. I'm sure lots of people would appreciate their work. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html