[Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Mon Jan 23 19:48:04 CET 2006


On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>
> 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...
>

Not necessarily. It's perfectly feasible to use a 32-bit build on a 64-bit 
machine, as it says in the manual, which is available from 
http://www.r-project.org whether or not you have an R installation.

 	-thomas



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