[R] R on Large Data Sets (again)

[Jason Morgan]

On 2009.11.29 14:24:40, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >> Windows 64-bit can certainly handle large memory spaces, but unless
> >> something has changed recently it my understanding Revolution
> >> Computing's 64-bit is the only 64-bit version of R available for
> >> Windows (due to the unavailability of adequate open source compilers
> >> for 64-bit Windows).  So 64-bit R will need to be Revolution's
> >> solution or a non-Windows platform.
> 
> Or use a commercial Windows compiler.
> 
> > It appears that GNU does have a project that has had some success at
> > compiling 64 bit Windows applications:
> >
> > http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Well, some interesed people have a project to port GCC and binutils: 
> as far as I am aware that is not an official GNU project.
> 
> > Not sure if all of the pieces are there for an R build, though.
> 
> You are welcome to show us how to do it (on the R-devel list): several 
> people have spent man months attempting this (including submitting 
> many patches to that project), and the rw-FAQ did tell you do so in 
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#How-can-I-compile-R-from-source_003f

Not a chance :)

I got away from Windows 10 years ago for exactly these reasons. I was
just trying help point a poor guy in the right direction.


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Jason W. Morgan
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