I have been running R on my Linux/SuSE for over 2 months. I know it works.
Some time ago it aborted as it ran out of memory in spite of having 2GB RAM
+ swap. Someone in this forum asked me whether I had compiled with the
64-bit libraries or the 32-bit since my computer is a 64-bit architecture.
Therefore my question is about the "configure" procedure I have downloaded.
Which parameters/options should I use with this configuration file in order
to get a 64-bit executable R ?
Last Friday my computer X server was messed up presumably by the on-line
installation of upgrade patches. I am reinstalling all the applications
after reinstalling the O.S.

Thank you so much,
Maura

On Jan 21, 2008 8:29 AM, Peter Dalgaard <P.Dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> wrote:

> Maura E Monville wrote:
> > I am downloading the latest R source code R-2.6.1.tar.gz
> >
> > I am installing ion a 64-bit machine.
> > Is the configuration script the proper one for 64-bin installation  ?
> I
> > mean the compiler and
> > linker options ..?
> >
> > Thanks you,
> > Maura
> >
> >
> The short answer is yes.
>
> The longer answer is that you didn't tell us which "Linux" you are
> talking about, but we have no reports on distributions where it doesn't
> work. You can easily check that .Machine$sizeof.pointer is 8 on a 64 bit
> build.
>
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