Hi all, Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2019, 09:06:49 CET schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > Bill, > > On 21 February 2019 at 15:14, Bill Glessner wrote: > | What is he most recent version of R known to run reliably in an > | environment of IBM HPC cluster Power8 systems, Ubuntu 16.04.1 operating > | environment with gpfs as the cluster file-system? It would seem from > | 'apt' checking to be R-3.2.3; however, that one is rather old and does > | not support a sufficient number of R packages that are needed for current > | university research projects. R-3.5.1 has been built from source on the > | IBM HPC cluster and passed its 'make check' without incident; but, when > | actual project work began, it did not complete and issued console > | messages indicating R task timeouts. > Ubuntu proper may support Power8. That would provide whatever version of R > was current when the particular Ubuntu release was made. Ubuntu 16.04 is > outdated, with Ubuntu 18.04 you would (IIRC) get R 3.4.4. > > What is at CRAN as backports is provided by volunteers on shoestring > budgets. Hence almost everything you see there is for x86_64. (Johannes > backports Debian builds to arm as well as he has need for it). > > So for Power8 help ... we can help with tips but I fear you may have to > spearhead. The good news is that it should not be hard.
I'd like to add that you should rebuild your R packages after upgrading from R 3.2.3 to R 3.5.1 because of changes in base R. Kind regards, Johannes > > Hth, Dirk https://jrwb.de/contact _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian