Hi,

I thought I would just jump in on this as I am running an i7 as well. I use  
hmisc for the doBy functions and it would make a huge difference  
particularly with large data sets to run this on 64bit windows. I'm not  
sure how to compile from source and usually use the install.packages  
option. At the moment I have two versions of R installed and switch between  
them depending on what I'm working with. Having an hmisc package for 64bit  
windows would really help.

Thanks Natalie

On May 7, 2010 1:52pm, Joris Meys <jorismeys@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zach,



> The R-gurus will correct me when I'm wrong, but as far as my very limited

> experience goes, the 64bit version only gives you an advantage when  
> throwing

> around huge datasets or doing very memory-intensive tasks. For most of the

> things I do with R, there is no difference at all. Now the difference

> between an old x86 and a new quadcore i7, that's another story...



> Cheers

> Joris



> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:32 PM, zach Li zach-li@hotmail.com> wrote:



> > thanks Joris,

> >

> > the reason I am looking for the instructions is that I hope 64 bit hmisc

> > will run better(faster) than 32 bit on 64 environment.

> >

> > Regards,

> > Zach.

> >

> > ------------------------------

> > Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 11:10:36 +0200

> > Subject: Re: [R] help on hmisc

> > From: jorismeys@gmail.com

> > To: zach-li@hotmail.com

> > CC: r-help@r-project.org

> >

> >

> > Puzzling question. You install R, you click on "install packages", you

> > select a mirror, you select hmisc, and done. There is a 64bit version  
> of R,

> > but a 32bit runs smooth on a Windows 7 64bit as well. if you love the

> > command line, look at ?install.packages.

> >

> > I can't see why you would like to compile an R package yourself. So in  
> case

> > you have a specific problem, a bit more information would come handy.

> >

> > Cheers

> > Joris

> >

> > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:30 AM, zach Li zach-li@hotmail.com> wrote:

> >

> >

> > can anyone know where i can find information on compile hmisc on  
> windows,

> > especially 64 windows?

> >

> >

> >

> > thanks,

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