[R] Which Linux OS on Athlon amd64, to comfortably run R?

[Ljubomir J. Buturovic]

Hi Ottorino,

I have been using R on 64-bit Ubuntu for about a year without
problems, both Intel and AMD CPUs. Installing and using several
packages (e1071, svmpath, survival) also works. However, I had to
install R from source:

$ gunzip -c R-2.6.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd R-2.6.1
$ ./configure --enable-R-shlib; make; make pdf
# make install; make install-pdf

Notice that `make install' has to be run as root.

I am using Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04), although I doubt that makes a
difference.

Hope this helps,

Ljubomir

8rino-Luca Pantani writes:
 > Dear R-users.
 > I eventually bought myself a new computer with the following 
 > characteristics:
 > 
 > Processor AMD ATHLON 64 DUAL CORE 4000+ (socket AM2)
 > Mother board ASR SK-AM2 2
 > Ram Corsair Value 1 GB DDR2 800 Mhz
 > Hard Disk WESTERN DIGITAL 160 GB SATA2 8MB
 > 
 > I'm a newcomer to the Linux world.
 > I started using it (Ubuntu 7.10 at work and FC4 on laptop) on a regular 
 > basis on May.
 > I must say I'm quite comfortable with it, even if I have to re-learn a 
 > lot of things.  But this is not a problem, I will improve my knowledge 
 > with time.
 > 
 > My main problem now, is that I installed Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on the 
 > new one amd64.
 > 
 > To install R on it i followed the directions found here
 > http://help.nceas.ucsb.edu/index.php/Installing_R_on_Ubuntu
 > 
 > but unfortunately it did not work.
 > 
 > After reading some posts on the R-SIG-debian list, such as
 > 
 > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2007-October/000253.html
 > 
 > I immediately realize that an amd64 is not the right processor to make 
 > life easy.
 > 
 > Therefore I would like to know from you, how can I solve this problem:
 > Should I install the i386 version of R ?
 > Should I install another flavour of Linux ?
 > Which one ?
 > Fedora Core 7 ?
 > Debian ?
 > 
 > Thanks a lot, for any suggestion
 > 
 > -- 
 > Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Università di Firenze
 > Dip. Scienza del Suolo e Nutrizione della Pianta
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