[R] Optimal platform for R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 3/9/2006 4:47 PM, gwelleni at bidmc.harvard.edu wrote:
> I'm looking to buy a new desktop which will primarily be used for
> analyses of large datasets (100s of MB). I've seen postings from several
> years back re the 'optimal' platform for running R, but nothing more
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> Specifically, I want to know: 1) if I run R under Windows, does having a
> dual-processor machine help speed things up? And 2) is it still true
> that R performs about as well under Windows as Linux? 

For a big dataset, you're better off with a 64 bit version of R.  There 
isn't one for Windows yet, and won't be for quite a while, since the 
build tools (gcc, etc.) don't exist.  So you're probably better off in 
Linux.

Duncan Murdoch
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