Did anybody try the REvolution R Enterprise 2.0? Is it worthwhile to buy for
the 64bit windows OS? Thanks.

Huang

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>wrote:

> On 3/30/2009 12:46 PM, Vadlamani, Satish {FLNA} wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>> 1) Does anyone have experience with 64 bit compiled version of R on
>> windows? Is this available or one has to compile it oneself?
>> 2) If we do compile the source in 64 bit, would we then need to compile
>> any additional modules also in 64 bit?
>>
>
> R for Windows is compiled using the MinGW port of gcc, and the 64 bit
> version of that compiler is not really ready for general use yet, so
> compiling for 64 bits is not completely straightforward.  Revolution
> Computing has announced on the R-devel list that they are beta testing a
> build, with some information at
>
> http://www.revolution-computing.com/products/windows-64bit.php
>
> The page says it is scheduled for release at the end of March, so there
> should be something available soon.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>
>> I am just trying to prepare for the time when I will get larger datasets
>> to analyze. Each of the datasets is about 1 GB in size and I will try to
>> bring in about 16 of them in memory at the same time. At least that is the
>> plan.
>>
>> I asked a related question in the past and someone recommended the product
>> RevolutionR - I am looking into this also. If you can think of any other
>> options, please mention. I have not been doing low level programming for a
>> while now and therefore, the self compilation on windows would be the least
>> preferable (and then I have to worry about how to compile any modules that I
>> need). Thanks.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Satish
>>
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