[Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
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> [About Ncell sizes on 64-bit platforms.]
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> 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/doc/manuals/R-admin.html

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

I don't want to be argumentative, but the perpective of "obvious"
can often be quite different from one of the authors versus one of
the users...

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* having
an operational R installation...

Regards,
Hin-Tak Leung