Thanks to you all for your replies. I didn't realize bigmemory is only
available in Unix environments - when I saw

> install.packages('bigmemory')
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/BenC/Documents/R/win-library/3.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Warning message:
package ‘bigmemory’ is not available (for R version 3.0.0)

I made the ignorant assumption that the issue was the R version, not the
OS. Maybe I'll finally get around to setting up a duel boot because of this!

Best

*Ben Caldwell*




On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 29/04/2013 23:46, Benjamin Caldwell wrote:
>
>> Dear helpers,
>>
>> Does anyone have information on the status of bigmemory and R3.0? Will it
>> just take time for the devs to re-code for the new environment? Or is
>> there
>> an alternative for this new version?
>>
>
> What are you asking about?  'bigmemory' has been available for R 3.0.0
> (sic) for a long time for all OSes bar Solaris and Windows, where the
> maintainers excluded it a long time ago (not just for R 3.0.0).
>
>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ben Caldwell
>>
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