[R] R software on 64bit - Intel Xeon processor

[Martyn Plummer]

Many packages in Fedora Extras, including R, have been recompiled for
CentOS (a RHEL clone). You can find them here:

http://centos.karan.org/

They should be compatible with RHEL, but of course your mileage may
vary.

Martyn

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:43 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> You don't seem to know your OS spec, so how can we guess?
> You chip can run various different OSes.  RH claim to have
> RHEL4 for AMD64/EM64T, but not `for 64bit'.
> 
> Use uname -a.  If it mentions ix86 (for x=3,4,5,6 or perhaps 7) use that 
> RPM.  I expect it will mention x86_64.  In that case you may need to 
> install from the sources.  One way to do so is to install the SRPM, 
> rpmbuild that and then install it.  But building from the source tarball 
> is also a cinch, and will avoid RH's broken blas library (if you have that 
> installed).  The other advantage is that you can install the current 
> R-patched rather than R-2.2.0 and benefit from all the patches.
> 
> Of course, it is possible that RedHat has an RPM (they do for FC3 and
> FC4), so have you checked their repositories?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Srinivas Iyyer wrote:
> 
> > Dear Group,
> > I have a machine which has a 64bit IntelЃ® Xeon™
> > Processor 3.00GHz, 2MB L2 Cache 6T302N - [ 221-7984 ]
> > processor.
> > (Dell Precision Workstation 670n IntelЃ® Xeon™
> > Processor)
> >
> > The OS is RedHat Enterprise Linux version 4 (for
> > 64bit).
> >
> > I went to /bin/linux/redhat/el4/i386 on CRAN FTP site.
> > I have no clue if any of these RPMs are suitable for
> > this machines configuration.
> >
> > Could any one point me to an appropriate RPM that I
> > can download and install it on this machine.
> 
> -- 
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