Thanks for the quick responses!  That Linux is the only way to go is
actually the
response I was hoping for since I tend to avoid Windows at all costs.

Jeff


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 13 September 2012 at 14:25, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> | R runs under CygWin now, so perhaps it could be done that way.
>
> I would hasten to add that according to R Core, there is precisely one way
> to
> use R on Windows: using MinGW.
>
> For the rest, you're on your own.  And on Windows I have never found that
> to
> be a good starting position.
>
> As for gputools: these are pretty compiler-dependent because of way Nvidia
> wraps its stuff up, and I would be almost certain that on that particular
> OS
> you are required to use the compiler by the same firm, which pretty much
> precludes using R object code with it. Unless you are really detemined, and
> really know the toolchain.
>
> So in short, I'd stick to Linux if you want to work with GPUs from R.
>
> Dirk
>
>
>
> | On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Jeffrey Arnold
> | <jeffrey.arnold@gmail.com> wrote:
> | > Has anyone ported gputools to windows? Or installed one of the other
> gpu
> | > packages (magma or OpenCL) on windows?
> | >
> | > Thanks, Jeff
> | >
> | > ---
> | > Jeffrey Arnold
> | > Department of Political Science
> | > University of Rochester
> | > http://jrnold.me
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> | > jeffrey.arnold@rochester.edu
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