[R] linux compile options (64-bit)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

We find it equally strange that you posted this!

The advice _is_ in the R-admin manual which the INSTALL file asks you to 
read if you have any questions.  It covers using enhanced BLAS libraries.

R builds out of the box on FC3, FC4 and Suse on AMD64.  I use Goto's BLAS, 
but ATLAS can be used (except that building a shared version is tricky).

Quite a few packages have been written in ways that stop them building on 
64-bit platforms (and the maintainers have been informed but not fixed 
them).

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jacob Michaelson wrote:

> Sorry--sent this before I added a subject line...
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Jacob Michaelson <jjmichael at comcast.net>
>> Date: August 1, 2005 8:51:58 PM MDT
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>
>>
>> I've been using R for a while under Mac OS X, which thanks to the R
>> on OS X developers, is probably the best platform for learning R.
>> I recently built a Linux box with a Pentium D processor, and am
>> running an AMD64 port of Ubuntu with the SMP kernel.
>>
>> After setting up the basics on the box, I thought I'd install R as
>> well. I've had a very hard time finding good documentation on some
>> configure flags/options for compiling a 64-bit version of R on
>> Linux.  I thought this was very strange, considering Linux is
>> apparently the R developer's platform of choice.
>>
>> Can anyone point me to some good build instructions for 64-bit R
>> under Linux?  Should I compile it against any additional libraries
>> for better performance?

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