[R] 64-bit R on OS X/G5?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

R works on 64-bit platforms and has for quite a while, currently I know of 
people using machines with 16Gb RAM on 64-bit platforms (Alpha, Sparc, 
AMD64).

Do you have a full 64-bit compiler and runtime for MacOS X?  If so `all'
you need to do is to run compile under it.  One quote I picked up was

	macos X has 64 bit support with gcc 3.3 and a g5

which if correct suggests this is possible.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Anders Sjögren wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a working 64-bit version of R for MacOs X 
> on G5? If so, is there a memory limit anyway or could I theroetically 
> use almost 8 GB in one session?

There is of course a memory limit but it far exceeds 8GB.  There is a 
limit on the length of vectors still (2^31 - 1) and a few other similar 
limits.

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