[R] Best Hardware & OS For Large Data Sets

Sharpie chuck at sharpsteen.net
Sat Feb 27 21:59:57 CET 2010



David Winsemius wrote:
> 
> 
> Perhaps the fact that the stable CRAN version of R for (any) Windows  
> is 32-bit? It would expand your memory space somewhat but not as much  
> as you might naively expect.
> 
> (There was a recent  announcement that an experimental version of a 64- 
> bit R was available (even with an installer) and there are vendors who  
> will supply a 64-bit Windows version for an un-announced price. The  
> fact that there was not as of January support for binary packages  
> seems to a bit of a constraint on who would be able to "step up" to  
> use full 64 bit R capabilities on Win64.
> 

According to this post by Dr. Ripley:

  http://n4.nabble.com/R-on-64-Bit-td1563895.html

CRAN is building 64bit Windows packages for R 2.11 which is currently under
development.  From the looks of it, 64 bit support may be coming to Windows
with the next major release of R.



David Winsemius wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing from the your failure to mention potential software
> constraints that you are not  
> among that more capable group, as I am also not.)
> 
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-January/056301.html
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-January/056411.html
> 
> 

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