[Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

[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
>> course, for those who "read the source", R/include/Rinternals.h). It
>> would be good to mention this in the FAQ (which it doesn't, or maybe I
>> didn't look hard enough), or the beginning of R-admin?
>> 
>
> It's not in the FAQ because it isn't a FAQ (yet).
>
> If you use the PDF manual it is in the table of contents on page i.
>
> In the HTML manual it is admittedly less clear: there isn't a table of 
> contents and there is nothing obvious in the index. To some extent this is a 
> problem with all the manuals. The structure in the .texi file isn't 
> translated well to HTML form by the makeinfo tools.

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.

It is also in ?Memory (a fairly obvious place).  It may be elsewhere, but 
those are the most obvious places to me.

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