[R] Precompiled x86_64 Binaries?

[Tom Colson]

 Yes, I meant to say Suse. 

I had tried Fedora....but I'm one of those who has to have bleeding edge
hardware...for which there are no working Fedora Drivers. Hence the switch
to Suse...so I can get video..so I can get a 64 Bit R running. 


All of this is just a "test". If we can get 64Bit R compiled and running
here...then we'll go to the Blade center with a procedure log on install and
repeat it on the Grid Computer. 

Thanks. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:15 AM
To: Thomas Colson
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Precompiled x86_64 Binaries?

Yes, under redhat/fc3.  Did you forget to mention SuSE?

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Thomas Colson wrote:

> Can't seem to find a x86_64 RPM for R on any of the DL mirrors. Does 
> one exist?
>
> From: Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard_at_biostat.ku.dk>
> Date: Fri 22 Oct 2004 - 23:00:41 EST
> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> R does not run under (beta) 64-bit Windows on x86_64 and we have no 
>> plans to port it there, but it does run under 32-bit Windows on that
processor.
>> I am sure it will run on several 64-bit operating systems on Apple 
>> Macintosh's so-called G5 hardware -- I believe we have seen a report 
>> that includes an in-progress version of MacOS 10.4 -- and also 
>> several 32-bit ones.
>
> Re. Windows, the issue is that we're using the mingw32 toolkit. If 
> there is ever a mingw64, I'm sure we'd attempt a port almost immediately.
>
>> If you want a prebuilt version you are out of luck except for Debian 
>> Linux on Alpha or ia64, from a quick glance.
>
> Actually, I've rolled up an x86_64 RPM for SuSE 9.1 which should be en 
> route to CRAN. Detlef Steuer is awaiting delivery of a 64bit machine 
> and plan to maintain the SuSE version in the longer run. It's sitting 
> in
> http://www.biostat.ku.dk/~pd/R-suse9.1-x86_64 for now.
>
> In general, it seems to be quite trivial to take a SPEC or SRPM for 
> the 32 bit version of a distribution and rebuild an RPM for 64 bits.
>
> However, you might prefer to install from the source tarball anyway if 
> you want to take advantage of high-performance libraries (some of 
> which can not be redistributed).

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