[Rd] 64 bit R for Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

Milton Lopez wrote:
> Duncan:
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Not being a part of the R world and having to assist with these purchases, I have to ask what "not yet" means. I realize that this is a difficult question to answer even for commercial software, but I am hoping you or someone else on the list may shed some additional light on the subject.

I would say it will be at least a year, and most likely longer.  The 
tools used to build R haven't been ported to 64 bit Windows yet.  After 
those are done (by the MinGW project, not us), we'll need someone with a 
64 bit Windows machine to handle builds there.

Duncan Murdoch

> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Milton F. López 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:39 PM
> To: Milton Lopez
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] 64 bit R for Windows
> 
> Milton Lopez wrote:
> 
>>I am assisting in the purchase of 64-bit Windows XP system for researchers who run R. These systems will have AMD Opteron processors and at least 4GB of RAM. I'd appreciate advice on whether there is a working version of R that can take full advantage of such systems.
> 
> 
> No, there are no 64 bit Windows versions yet.  You'll need to install 
> some 64 bit version of Linux on those machines to take full advantage of 
> the chips.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch