[R] R on 64-Bit…

[Liviu Andronic]

On 2/21/10, Axel Urbiz <axel.urbiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>  2)      MacOS or Unix.  Sorry for my ignorance on this…but if I use any of
>  these environments on 64-bit and  installed R on any of those, this is all I
>  need to have R working on 64-bit. How about installing specialized packages?
>  Are the packages on the CRAN repositories “ready tho use” on these systems
>  or do I have to do any additional work to get them going?
>
I am using R on Debian testing 64-bit. Debian has good support for R,
and provides most CRAN packages as binaries, via cran2deb (a rarity on
Linux). With a slight effort Debian can be good for a novice in Linux.
Liviu